Its not even about the candidates at this point. The people just want to rid themselves of the PLD. Theyre getting killed in just about every election and Leonel is syphoning Castillo's votes which doesnt help the PLD at all. This is brutal. The people have spoken.As of 9:30 tonight Abinader has 53.36% of the vote per Diario.
PLD stuffing ballots boxes as fast as possible.
At least everybody can move on now.Its not even about the candidates at this point. The people just want to rid themselves of the PLD. Theyre getting killed in just about every election and Leonel is syphoning Castillo's votes which doesnt help the PLD at all. This is brutal. The people have spoken.
Reuters is claiming the PLD has lost power after 16 years.
They have not declared a winner yet.
Well, they weren't last time they were in power.Gonzalo Castillo admits his defeat | Dominican Republic News
The presidential candidate for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) admitted his defeat in the electoral process by congratulating and recognizing Luis Abinader as the new president of the Republic. Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. With 30.05% of the vote counted...dominicanrepublicnews.info
Not even paying thousands of poor in hundreds of Barrios 200 to 500 pesos per vote could win it for the PLP.
Let's hope the new crooks are slightly more honest with the people's money than Danilo's group.
Well see I said I hope they are slightly more honest. I am not placing a great deal of hope in the honesty of politicians here (nor elsewhere for that matter). But the outright vote buying needs to be addressed, as the party in power can easily buy there victory in close election.Well, they weren't last time they were in power.
What about the $600 million the Chinese dumped trying to buy themselves a Caribbean island ?With the 650 million dollar loan they recieved from the IMF back in April and additional 100 million they took in last month...
I thought they'd take it.
Congrats to thê PRM.
I'm gonna have to get a bigger for sale sign. They seem to have missed mine.What about the $600 million the Chinese dumped trying to buy themselves a Caribbean island ?