The grandson of late dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo signed an electoral alliance with the Partido Democrático Institucional (PDI), forming the Frente Nacionalista Opositor (Freno), with the purpose of running for the next elections of 2020.
Luis José Ramfis Domínguez Trujillo signed the political pact with the party’s president, Ismael Reyes Cruz, both agreeing that the country needs new leadership and that Domínguez Trujillo “could organize and strengthen power.”
During the announcement at the Hotel Embajador event, Reyes Cruz stressed that it is not correct to judge the grandson of the dictator for the crimes committed by his grandfather.
Also, Trujillo said that from the alliance begins a new process in the Dominican Republic and that party leaders seek will try to eradicate corruption and take the country along a path of hope.
There is an impediment, nevertheless. The 2015 Constitution establishes preconditions for a dual national to aspire to the Dominican presidency in the 2020 election. Art. 20 of the Constitution says that a dual national can opt for the Presidency if renouncing the alternate nationality 10 years prior to running for the Presidency. The person must also have resided in the Dominican Republic during those 10 years. Domínguez Trujillo does not meet these conditions.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ruben Maldonado of the ruling PLD party, described the aspirations of Domínguez Trujillo as “an odyssey, a chimera”. “That is but a dream that was put into that man’s head that will not prosper.”
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El Nuevo Diario
1 February 2018
