After the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) annulled the convention organized by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) on 3 December 2018, the Executive Presidential Commission of the PRD announced on Monday it would organize a new process to elect the political party’s authorities for the next four years. Party president Miguel Vargas Maldonado said he feels the judges took excesses from their attributions when annulling the convention, but said he would respect the decision issued in Ruling 002-/2018. A new date for the convention has yet to be announced.
The PRD allied with the PLD to make possible the reelection of President Danilo Medina in 2016, when the vote of the PRD legislators enabled the amending of the 2010 Constitution to allow for his running again.
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Diario Libre
27 March 2018
