The president of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), José Ignacio Paliza announced the political party’s board decided on Wednesday, 6 August to propose Eduardo Estrella of Dominicans for Change (DxC) as president of the Senate of the Republic and Alfredo Pacheco, as president of the Chamber of Deputies. DxC was an ally to the PRM in the presidential and congressional election that took place on 5 July 2020. The PRM will have a majority in both houses.
The leadership vote for the two chambers of Congress will take place on 16 August 2020, along with the change of government place prior to the National Assembly session in which President-elect Luis Abinader of the PRM will be sworn in as President of the Republic.
The PRM also announced that they have chosen senator-elect Faride Raful to be the party’s spokesperson in the Senate. Alexis Victoria, senator-elect for María Trinidad Sánchez province, will be the deputy spokesperson. In the Chamber of Deputies, the spokesperson for the PRM will be Julito Fulcar and the deputy spokesperson will be Eugenio Cedeño.
Of 32 senators, PRM and its allies won 18 seats. While the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) obtained 6, the Christian Social Reformist Party (PRSC) 5, the People’s Force (FP), Dominicans for Change (DxC) and the Social Democratic Institutional Bloc (BIS) each obtained a senatorial seat.
The breakdown in the Chamber of Deputies is: PRM 93 seats, PLD 76, PRSC 4, Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) 3, Country Alliance (Al Pais) 2, Civic Renovator Party (PCR) 2, Open Front (Frente Amplio) 1, the Institutional Quisqueya Democrat Party (PQDC) 1, the Reformist Liberal Party (PLR) 1 and Dominicans for Change 1.
The PRM took the seven seats for deputies representing Dominicans abroad.
The five national deputies are divided among the PLD, PRM, PRSC, PCR and Open Front (Frente Amplio) and the Dominican Humanist Party (Partido Humanista Dominicano).
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6 August 2020