The candidacies for the Presidency of the Republic and the mayoralties of Santo Domingo East and West will be the ones that receive the main media coverage.
Three positions gain the most attention in the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) primaries scheduled for Sunday, 1 October 2023.
The candidacies for the Presidency of the Republic and the mayoralties of Santo Domingo East and West will be decided in the primary.
The PRM expects close to 300,000 to vote in its primaries of the 3,092,289 in the PRM party roll.
The candidacies for the Presidency of the Republic and the mayoralties of Santo Domingo East and West will be the ones that receive the main media coverage.
Most of the other municipal mayor positions, as well as senator and deputy positions are to be chosen by party directors.
The party will choose its presidential candidate. President Luis Abinader seeks to be the party candidate. Others running is former legal advisor Guido Gomez Mazara and former Minister of Economy and president of the Senate, Ramon Alburquerque, as well as lawyer and psychologist Delia Josefina Ortiz.
The candidates for the Santo Domingo Este city mayor are mayor Manuel Jiménez, the deputy Bertico Santana, the former director of the Dominican Postal Institute (Inposdom) and president of that political organization in that municipality, Adam Peguero, and the general coordinator of the Cabinet of the Family of the Executive Branch and former candidate for the same position, Dio Astacio.
The current trustee, José Andújar, will compete for the Santo Domingo Oeste city council; former mayor Francisco Peña; the deputy, Elías Báez, and politician, José Moya, who is the general secretary of the PRM in that municipality.
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) reported this Thursday that everything is ready for the celebration of the primaries, for which some 1,502 electoral precincts have been enabled nationwide, while the polling stations amount to 5,149. The PRM primary will serve as a pilot exercise for the 2024 municipal, presidential and congressional elections.
The party has to 6 October 2023 to announce the results of the votes. On 11 October, the candidates who are elected in the primaries must be proclaimed and the 20th of this month is the deadline to deposit in the JCE the list of all the candidates who were elected in the primaries. This list must be deposited in compliance with the gender quota, which must not exceed 60% nor less than 40% in any case. The list must also respect the 10% of candidates for youth established by the Party Law 33/18.
29 October is the deadline for choosing candidates who are elected in ways other than primaries. The majority of the majority organizations chose the survey method to define their municipal and congressional ballot.
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