The followers of Guido Gómez Mazara, of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), have asked the Central Electoral Board (JCE) for a 45-day time frame for the party factions to meet and hold an ordinary party convention to elect the new party leader and senior positions for the party. The present party leader is Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, but a recent decision of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) called for new elections.
PRD spokesman Tonty Rutinel Domínguez explained that the JCE should organize an ordinary meeting as laid down in the law and the party statutes. He said that they are looking for unification and for the PRD to present its own presidential candidate in the 2020 general election. He said that he had sent a communication to the other two factions of the party so that the convention could be held with no major difficulties.
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El Dia
17 April 2019