A political analysis in Listin Diario focuses on how the opposition would have won more slots if the former ruling party’s two main leaders had managed to put aside their differences and effectively present joint candidates. The analysis says the divisions resulted in the lack of consolidation of the Alianza Rescate RD political coalition in at least nine municipalities.
The Alianza Rescate RD alliance sought to present joint candidates for the former ruling party, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), the dissident People’s Force of former President Leonel Fernandez and the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) of Miguel Vargas Maldonado. Vargas Maldonado was a strong ally of the PLD in past elections. The PRM was formed when most party members left the PRD.
Listin Diario writes that the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) and its allies obtained 120 mayors of 158 in the 2024 municipal election, with a national percentage of 76.7% of the votes. The PLD won 17 mayors with 10.1%, and the People’s Force, Christian Social Reformist (PRSC) and Dominican Revolutionary (PRD) parties, seven mayors each. In the 2020 election, the PRM had won 113 mayor seats.
The Listin Diario analysis makes the point that the results would have been different in the municipalities of Baitoa, Santiago; Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal; Barahona, El Pino in Dajabón; Las Terrenas in Samaná; Vicente Noble in Barahona; Villa Isabela, Montecristi; San Ignacio de Sabaneta, in Santiago Rodríguez, and Sabana Iglesia, Santiago if the opposition parties had gone to the polls together with common candidates for mayor in these elections.
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Listin Diario
20 February 2024