El Nuevo Diario reports that taxpayer money funded RD$5.04 billion allocated in 2024 to the political parties authorized to participate in the 2024 municipal, presidential and congressional elections. The JCE calculates the standing of the parties and percentage based on the total number of votes that the parties had received in the three levels of election in the 2020 election. According to this standing, the political parties receive generous allotments for their campaign activities. There is scant checks on how the funds are used by the political parties.
Of the total, the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) and the Dominican Revolutionary Party each received RD$1.008 million, or 80%.
Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC); Alianza País (ALPAÍS); Dominicanos por el Cambio (DXC); Partido de...
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