President Danilo Medina urged Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) members to campaign aggressively for the ruling party candidates. President Medina stressed that the party that has the greatest capacity to mobilize people on election day will win.
During an assembly of the party on Monday, 13 January 2020, President Medina, PLD presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo, and the PLD’s Political Committee, announced their backing to all PLD municipal candidates in the 16 February 2020 election. Castillo has says that funds collected for his Gonzalo 2020 campaign will be used for the municipal campaigns of party members.
The head of state was emphatic in explaining that statistics indicate 50% of the people vote in presidential elections. He said the municipal election will then be decided by the militant vote of the political parties. He said that because of this situation “everyone” will have sufficient resources “from now on.”
The plan is that a big win by the party in the municipal elections pave the way for the presidential election set for 17 May 2020.
The meeting took place at the Volleyball Pavilion at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center. It gathered around 4,000 PLD candidates to mayors, vice-mayors, directors of municipal districts, deputy directors, city councilors and other elective officers at the municipal level.
As reported the event was organized by Sports Minister Danilo Diaz, electoral director of the National Campaign Committee.
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Newstral
15 January 2020