Dominicans went to vote early on 5 July 2020, wearing masks and trying to respect social distances. On Sunday, voters gave the leading opposition party, the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) the control of the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch.
The opposition swept the 2020 presidential and congressional elections. The leading polls had forecast the PRM candidate Luis Abinader would win in a first round. But the vote was such that opposition parties also took the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The PRM will now be the majority in Congress, with the vote to pass important measures and the promised changes. President Danilo Medina had governed with the majority in the Congress from 2012 to 2019.
At the presidential level, with 81% of the polling stations computed late on 5 July, the Central Electoral Board preliminary results were: PRM and...
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