The PLD will choose the candidates for mayors of Santiago, San Cristobal and Santo Domingo North from its own membership, announced party general secretary Reinaldo Pared Perez after a meeting with President Danilo Medina yesterday, Thursday 10 September 2015. Mayor Raul Mondesi (San Cristobal), Gilberto Serulle (Santiago) and Francisco Fernandez (Santo Domingo North) were elected on PRD tickets in the 2010 municipal election.
Despite the fact that the PLD and the PRD have a pact for joint candidacies in the 2016 general election, the PLD announced the pact did not apply to those three cities at a municipal level but that the PRD could apply for congressional posts. Pared Perez says that 15% of the electorate lives in those municipalities.
Pared Perez described the management by PRD mayors Raul Mondesi in San Cristobal and Francisco Fernandez in Santo Domingo North as “disastrous.”
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