Education Minister Andrés Navarro, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier García, Environment Minister Francisco Domínguez, Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo and Interior & Police Minister Carlos Amarante Baret are seeking the PLD presidential nomination. Other PLD members aspiring for their party’s presidential nomination include Reinaldo Pared Perez, president of the Senate, and former Minister of Industry & Commerce Temístocles Montás. The Medina cabinet officers met at the Presidential Palace on Thursday, 15 March 2018.
Conventional wisdom regards former President Leonel Fernández and even incumbent President Danilo Medina as the leading pre-candidates for the party’s nomination. While the 2015 Constitution bans Medina from running, his followers are energetically looking for a loophole in the nation’s laws or are pushing for an amendment to the Constitution (through Congress action) that would allow Medina to once again run for the nation’s highest elected office.
An editorial published in Diario Libre last week remarks that the pre-candidates who were called to the Presidential Palace for the meeting with President Danilo Medina on Thursday, 15 March 2018, are taking things in stride.
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
19 March 2018
