The leading political parties have already registered their presidential candidates for the presidential election. The deadline to do so is tomorrow, 17 March at midnight. The presidential and vice presidential candidacies registered so far are: Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (the ruling party): Danilo Medina and Amilcar Romero. The Medina-Romero ticket has the support of the minority party, Bloque Institucional Socialdemócrata. Partido Revolucionario Dominicano: Hipólito Mejía and Milagros Ortiz Bosch. Partido Reformista Social Cristiano: Joaquín Balaguer and Jacinto Peynado. The Balaguer-Peynado candidacy has the support of minority party, Partido Liberal de la RD-La Estructura. Minority parties: Movimiento Independencia, Unidad y Cambio (MIUCA): Manuel Salazar, Virtudes Alvarez. Partido de los Trabajadores (PTD): José González Espinosa, Esteban Díaz Jáquez. Movimiento de Unidad e Integración Nacional (UNIDO): César Estrella Sahdalá, César Nicolás Penson. Partido Nueva Alternativa: Ramón Almánzar, Héctor Sánchez. Pending is the presentation of candidacies by the Partido Popular Cristiano (Hector Rafael Peguero Méndez), and Fuerza Nacional Progresista (Marino Vinicio Castillo). The Junta Central Electoral has already approved the candidacies presented by the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, but has yet to give green light to the other candidacies.
