The ruling PLD’s National Electoral Commission has announced that Roberto Salcedo and Juan de los Santos will again be running for mayor for the National District (Santo Domingo) and the Santo Domingo East municipality. If he were to win, it would be Salcedo’s fourth term. Juan de los Santos has been mayor of Santo Domingo East since 2006. For him it would be his third term.
PLD electoral commission spokesman Lidio Cadet said that the decision had been reached after the polling companies presented their results for these districts. The other candidates who have been confirmed are mayor Anyolino Lugame Germosen Leon for Tamboril in Santiago, Jose Rafael Hernandez Portes, alias Negro, in the municipal district of Ranchito in La Vega, Rosa Maria Sanchez in Sabana Buey, Peravia, Mirope Antonio Mendez Sanchez in El Limonal, Bani, Jose Leocadio Rodriguez Toribio in Villa Gonzalez in the province of Santiago, Marino Antonio Espinal Fana in Juncalito, Janico, in the province of Santiago, and Herminio de Jesus Rodriguez Peralta in El Rubio, San Jose de las Matas, Santiago.
The polls were conducted by Sigma Dos and Asisa Research Group.
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