The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Julio César Castaños Guzmán said that the political activity held on Sunday, 26 August 2018 during which PLD party president Leonel Fernández announced his aspirations to return to power in 2020, and the event planned for Sunday, 31 August by Hipólito Mejía, who also aspires to return to the presidency, do not violate the new Political Parties Law.
He said that Fernández had announced he would celebrate the meeting months before the passing of the law, as reported in Diario Libre. “In this there has to be prudence and reasoning on our behalf as a regulator,” he told journalists. He said soon the JCE would set the guidelines regarding these activities to put matters in order, but said that time is needed. He said the JCE does not have the right to intervene in the right to elect and be elected of citizens. He announced the first draft for the organization of primaries would be discussed on Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at the JCE and then communicated to the political parties for their opinion.
Meanwhile, the political party Dominicanos por el Cambio (DXC) requested that the JCE remove from roadways all propaganda placed by the pre-candidates of the ruling PLD in the understanding that this is in violation of the Political Parties Law.
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Diario Libre
Noticias SIN
29 August 2018
