Monsignor Nicolás de Jesús Cardenal López Rodríguez favored that the presidential re-election be submitted to a plebiscite so that the entire population could have a say on the important political issue. Consecutive presidential re-election was banned in the constitutional reform that took place in 1994. President Leonel Fernández favors the referring the important political question to the electorate for a direct decision by a general vote.
