Administrative Minister of the Presidency José Ramón Peralta confirmed that President Danilo Medina will not personally hand over the presidential sash to President-elect Luis Abinader. Instead, Medina will attend a private act at the National Assembly room where he will hand over the presidential sash to Santiago senator Eduardo Estrella. And then he will leave the National Assembly before the change of command ceremony.
Earlier in the morning, the elected senators will vote for Estrella to preside over the Senate. Estrella ran for the Dominicans for Change (DxC) minority party, but backed the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) and its presidential candidate Luis Abinader. As planned, Estrella will then return to the main hall of the National Assembly to place the sash on President-elect Luis Abinader on the morning of 16 August 2020. For the first...
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