Vice President Margarita Cedeño has said that when the time is right she will reveal her political aspirations regarding her participation in the 2020 general election. Speaking to the press on her arrival at the XVII Regional Meeting of Women in Political Parties, organized by the Centroamerican Parliament (Parlacen) at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the capital city, she said that she had not attended the launching of her husband’s aspirations to be the PLD president candidate in 2020 because as Vice President she represents the whole country and not one particular party.
She went on to say, that as Fernández’s wife, he knows he can count on her but that this event was not a family activity and that he was fighting for institutionalism and respect for the Constitution. Into the 2016 presidential election, Cedeño had aspired to the PLD presidential nomination. Former President Leonel Fernández had also aspired to be the PLD presidential candidate in that election. Legislators loyal to President Danilo Medina, nevertheless, maneuvered in time to amend the 2010 Constitution in order to allow the reelection of their leader, who then was named the presidential candidate for the ruling party.
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29 August 2018
