The Senate yesterday officially notified the head of the PRSC, ex-President Dr. Joaquín Balaguer, that it will only consider his party’s list of three candidates for the currently vacant Altagracia Province seat in the Senate when the list is no longer headed by a sitting Federal Deputy. That is to say, the PRSC’s top choice, Deputy Ramón Ricardo Sánchez de la Rosa, must first resign his Chamber seat or else be taken off the list. The vacancy was created when Amable Aristy Castro resigned because of his new position as LMD Secretary-General (the Dominican Constitution does not allow sitting legislators to hold other public office). As is the tradition, the party that had won the vacant seat in the previous elections can nominate three of its members from which the Senate can choose a successor. In addition to Dr. Sánchez de la Rosa, the PRSC had nominated Juan Santana Castro and Hugo Alberto González.
