The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) registered the candidacy of Jose Leonel (Neney) Cabrera for the Secretary General of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD). An assembly to choose the secretary general will take place on 26 January 2017.
The PRD committee was headed by Rafael Vazquez (Fiquito) along with Junior de los Santos, Pedro Richardson, director of the Dominican Association of Municipal Districts (ADODIM), Rafael Subervi Bonilla (Fello), and other party members. Neney Cabrera did not attend.
Junior de Los Santos, the Los Alcarrizos mayor, said that the agreement with the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) to share power would lead to national unity. He called the PRD the second largest political force in the municipalities with 82 local governments and 33 mayors who had the right to propose a candidate to head up the LMD.
Meanwhile, ruling PLD party mayors met yesterday but could not decide who to vote back – be it Ignacio Ditrén of the PLD, Neney Cabrera of their ally the PRD, or Johnny Jones of the PRSC. The PLD meeting was chaired by PLD secretary general Reinaldo Pared Pérez, who is president of the Senate, and has said repeatedly that the time has come for a PLD mayor to head the LMD.
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El Caribe
Listin Diario
24 January 2017
