The Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ramón Peralta told journalists at the Presidential Palace yesterday that recent polls suggest that in the PLD, the only pre-candidate that could win enough votes to win in a first round is President Danilo Medina. Medina is banned from running for the Presidency in 2020 by the 2015 Constitution. That Constitution supersedes the previous 2010 Constitution that had also banned him from seeking re-election.
President Danilo Medina has said he would speak on his re-election bid in March.
“Danilo Medina is the only one, today, in the PLD that wins in the first round. In all the surveys, he is the only one who wins in the first round against all politicians in the Dominican Republic he observed in a morning interview on the TV show, Conexión 31. Peralta said: “He [the President] said when the party addressed the issue, he’d talk. It could be in March, April, May, June until July, but tentatively the party said it would address the issue in March,” he said.
Peralta said PLD polls show that Medina has the vote of more than 50% of the population. The ruling party has the vote of 53% compared to its nearest opposition that only reaches 24%.
The PLD influential political committee is scheduled to meet on 4 March 2019.
20 February 2019