After several months of failed negotiations with the ruling PLD party, PRSC president Federico Antun Batlle (Quique) announced an agreement under which Batlle would be the most likely vice presidential candidate on the PRM ticket in the 2016 presidential election. The pact ensures that the PRM will have additional funding because the PRSC receives RD$18 million a month from the Central Electoral Board (JCE) while the PRM, as a new party, does not have access to the funding for political parties.
PRSC general secretary Ramon Rogelio Genao would be the candidate for senator for La Vega. The PRSC dominated the country’s political scene from 1966 until 1996, when an alliance was made with the PLD that catapulted the latter to the presidency.
The agreement also established that the PRSC would post senate candidacies for 12 provinces, including the candidacies for senators of veteran politicians Josecito Hazim, for San Pedro de Macoris, Frank Martinez, in La Romana, Luis Jose Gonzalez Sanchez in Bahoruco, Alfonso Fermin (Nino) in Monsenor Nouel, Hector Rodriguez Pimentel in Montecristi and Carlos Troche in Puerto Plata. The National District and Santo Domingo province senate seats would be alternated according to the results of the February 2016 poll.
Others mentioned were Eddy Alcantara for the province of Santo Domingo, Benny Metz, and the candidates for senator for La Altagracia, San Juan and Sanchez Ramirez. In Santiago two-time mayor Jose Enrique Sued would be the PRSC mayor candidate.
Genao added that of the 50 joint candidacies for deputy seats, 10 posts would be validated through polls.
The alliance within the PRSC was not unanimous, as reported in El Caribe. The party’s organizational secretary Miguel Bogaert described it as a farce because it did not have the required quorum. Other opponents of the agreement include Modesto Guzman and Alexandra Izquierdo, who hold high-ranking posts in the Medina administration and PRSC deputy Marino Collante, who voted in favor of Medina’s re-election.
In response to the news, President Danilo Medina expressed regret that his party could not reach an agreement with the PRSC “because always two is more than one, three is more than two and four is more than three, but two is not always the same as one plus one,” an allusion to a song by Spaniard Joaquin Sabina.
In the 2012 general elections, the PRSC only obtained four senator seats (in alliance with the PLD), 12 deputy seats and 16 city governments.
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