US Ambassador Robin Bernstein last week visited president of the Higher Electoral Court (TSE), Ramón Jáquez Liranzo. Jáquez is under pressure from the ruling PLD party after the court issued a ruling annulling the 2015 convention that elected Miguel Vargas Maldonado, president of the PRD, a leading PLD ally. As leader of the PRD, in 2015 Vargas would ally the party with the ruling PLD in its bid for amendments to the Constitution to enable the reelection of President Danilo Medina. President Medina then would name Vargas Maldonado as the DR’s foreign minister and PRD vice president Janet Camilo as the DR’s minister for women.
In the press release, the TSE reported that TSE President Jáquez Liranzo received the US Ambassador to discuss the challenges ahead in the primaries of the political parties, as well as general matters regarding the presidential, legislative and municipal elections set for 2020. PLD party secretary and president of the Senate, Reinaldo Pared Pérez, has called for the Chamber of Deputies to interpellate the judges that voted in favor of the TSE annulment, on the grounds that “one does not fool around with power.”
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Listin Diario
30 April 2019