The president of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Puerto Plata senator José Ignacio Paliza rejected the unifying of the 2020 general elections. He responded to the proposal made by municipal authorities to modify the Constitution so that municipal, congressional and presidential elections take place on the same day.
“Nothing and no one is going to distract us,” he said. He observed that constitutional texts can always be improved, but that “at this moment in history, what those who seek to modify it are looking for is to remain in power above any logic.”
On Monday, 8 July 2019, the secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League, Johnny Jones, and presidents of several municipal associations, presented to the Congress and the Central Electoral Board (JCE) a motion to unify the municipal election scheduled for 16 February 2020 with the congressional and presidential elections set for 17 May 2020.
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El Caribe
10 July 2019