The Central Electoral Board (JCE) vote campaign now shows young people dressed in black, like those who have been demonstrating in front of the JCE headquarters for more than a week. The campaign is to motivate Dominicans to vote in the rescheduled 15 March 2020 municipal election.
Traditionally, abstention in the municipal elections has been around 50%, but this time around a larger than normal vote is expected, more so after young people have become active in politics after the municipal election was abruptly canceled on 16 February 2020 for reasons yet to be explained.
In the 45 seconds spot that has gone viral in social networks, the JCE invites people to vote with a storyboard where young people remark: “This has never happened before, let’s leave it at that, that’s your duty, we are not going to vote, suspend the elections,” are read.
And then the young people turn the banners upside down and what was previously negatives become: “Let’s continue the election, I’m going to vote again, I’m going to express myself, this will never happen again, let’s not leave it at that, it’s our duty.”
“If we give a turn to the negative we all win, this 15 March let’s vote again in the extraordinary municipal elections, democracy does not stop, Central Electoral Board,” says the voiceover.
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Listin Diario
26 February 2020