The president of the National Organization Committee of the Dominican Revolutionary Modern Party (PRM), Tony Raful, said that the second bulletin with the results of the internal elections held on Sunday, 18 March 2018, issued on the afternoon of Monday 19 March with 17% of the votes had been counted shows that Puerto Plata senator Jose Ignacio Paliza had 80.69% of the vote for president of the party, followed by 01.73% for Geanilda Vasquez and 8.57% for Jesus Feris Iglesias.
Carolina Mejia, former vice presidential candidate for the PRM in the 2016 election, lead in votes for the secretary general position. With 15.52% of these votes counted, she had 69.57% of these, followed by 22.82% by Jesus Vasquez, 4.68% to Leonardo Faña.
Despite the late arrival of the electoral materials, Raful said that the elections had been success, and that the vote in those municipalities that did not receive electoral materials on time would not affect the national candidates.
A report in Diario Libre said that the outcome is evidence of the strong leadership of former PRM presidential candidate Luis Abinader and former President Hipólito Mejia, Carolina Mejía’s father.
Read more in Spanish:
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/politica/resultados-convencion-prm-reflejan-la-fuerza-del-liderazgo-de-abinader-y-mejia-XE9446275
https://listindiario.com/la-republica/2018/03/19/507080/segundo-boletin-del-prm-sera-a-las-500-pm-con-el-10–de-los-votos
20 March 2018
