While most of the focus of the 2019 Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) primary has been on who would win the presidential nominations, the congressional election results are also in.
Five of the current senators for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) will not be up for reelection, having been defeated in the primaries. These are Sonia Mateo, Adriano Sánchez Roa, Prim Pujals, José Emeterio Hazim Frappier (Josecito Hazim) and Manuel de Jesús Guichardo that were defeated by other candidates.
In Dajabón, Sonia Mateo obtained 29.86 % of the votes and was beaten by Gregorio Reyes Castillo (Goyo), with 42.96%.
In Elías Piña, Adriano Sánchez Roa received 33.57% and was beaten by Ivan Lorenzo Suero with 36.88%.
Prim Pujals, representing Samaná, had only 17.6% of the votes with Miguel Ángel Jazmín (Muñeco), reaching 42.03%. Pujals is one of those who had supported former President Leonel Fernández’s aspirations to return to the presidency in 2020.
The new PLD candidate for San Pedro de Macoris will be Dr. Francis Peña with 33.69% of the votes, after he defeated Josecito Hazim who lost with 31.44% of the vote.
In Valverde, Mao, Manuel Guichardo, the current representative, obtained 25.88% of the votes, beaten by Ángela Pozo, with 67.13%.
The media reports that most of the candidates for senators running with the backing of President Danilo Medina won in the primary. Not so the sister of President Medina, Lucia Medina, who lost her bid to be the PLD candidate in San Juan de la Maguana. Felix Bautista, who has been named by Transparency International as one of the most corrupt people in the world, will again be running for senator for the province. He has the backing of the Leonel Fernández faction in the ruling party.
José Rafael Vargas, a Fernández supporter, won the candidacy for Espaillat.
Senators Charlie Mariotti (Monte Plata); Amilcar Romero (Duarte); Amarilis Santana (La Romana). Cristina Lizardo (Santo Domingo) and Rafael Paz (National District) that had the support of President Medina, will be the party’s candidates for their province of Santo Domingo and the National District, respectively.
In La Vega, Euclides Sánchez repeats as the PLD candidate for senator, as will Aristides Victoria Yeb in Maria Trinidad Sanchez and Felix Nova in Monsignor Nouel. These three are known as Danilistas, as is the senator for Montecristi, Hans Vieluf, who was also the most voted in his province.
In Hato Mayor, Senator Ruben Dario Cruz, better known as Ruben Toyota, will return as a candidate to that position as the standard-bearer of Medina’s armies of campaigners.
In Santiago, the Danilista Julio César Valentín, a few years ago a follower of Fernández, won the primary. In Hermanas Mirabal, the PLD senator Luis René Canaán will now run for reelection.
In Barahona, the former Minister of Industry and Commerce José del Castillo, one of the Danilista figures in the region, is the PLD candidate.
Popular deputy Faride Raful was voted the PRM candidate for senator for Santo Domingo. She is the candidate to beat.
People from show business have also made it, including comedian Bolivar Vargas who was elected candidate to deputy for the PLD. Betty Gerónimo will run for deputy for Santo Domingo Province on the PRM ticket. Betty Gerónimo is a former dancer, known for her participation in the TV Show “Divertido con Jochi.” She later had her own TV show and married the former mayor of Santo Domingo Norte (Villa Mella), Francisco Rodriguez.
Domingo Contreras (55.97%) and Abel Martínez (60%) won the PLD candidacies to run for mayors of the National District and Santiago in the 2020 municipal elections. Martínez is running for reelection. Singer and composer Manuel Jiménez will run for mayor for Santo Domingo East for the PRM.
Read more in Spanish:
https://n.com.do/2019/10/06/mayoria-de-candidatos-a-senador-de-sector-danilista-ganan-primarias-del-pld/
https://listindiario.com/la-republica/2019/10/07/585735/cinco-senadores-quedan-fuera-de-juego-para-otra-gestion-en-la-camara
https://www.diariolibre.com/revista/farandula/de-figuras-publicas-a-candidatos-oficiales-los-famosos-que-ganaron-candidaturas-OI14582693
8 October 2019