Presidential pre-candidate for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) Luis Abinader said on Hoy Mismo (Channel 9): “It is necessary to make a reform so as not to make more constitutional reforms.” On the same TV program he observed that the timing is not right for constitutional reform. In July 2019, he led a large march of followers to the National Congress to protest efforts to convene Congress for constitutional reform.
Abinader is now open to constitutional reform to unify the municipal, congressional and presidential elections in May 2020. On the constitutional reform agenda is also allowing President Medina to run for President in 2024. Abinader said, nevertheless, that the rehabilitating of Medina is an internal issue of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). He also stated the timing is not right now for constitutional reform.
Abinader’s contender to be the PRM the presidential candidate, former President Hipólito Mejía, who openly favors constitutional reform to unify the elections and rehabilitate Medina. Mejía himself was rehabilitated in the 2010 constitutional reform when President Leonel Fernández received the backing of the PRD. As a result, the PRD then split into the PRD of Miguel Vargas and the PRM of Luis Abinader and Hipólito Mejía.
Abinader also explained that the electoral register for the PRM closed with 1.3 million voters. The PRM will be holding its primary on 6 October 2019. The total number of persons eligible to vote is 7.4 million. 6.1 million voters remain to vote for the presidential candidates of the other parties.
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7 August 2019