El Nuevo Diario reports that taxpayer money funded RD$5.04 billion allocated in 2024 to the political parties authorized to participate in the 2024 municipal, presidential and congressional elections. The JCE calculates the standing of the parties and percentage based on the total number of votes that the parties had received in the three levels of election in the 2020 election. According to this standing, the political parties receive generous allotments for their campaign activities. There is scant checks on how the funds are used by the political parties.
Of the total, the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) and the Dominican Revolutionary Party each received RD$1.008 million, or 80%.
Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC); Alianza País (ALPAÍS); Dominicanos por el Cambio (DXC); Partido de Unidad Nacional (PUN); Bloque Institucional Social Demócrata (BIS); Partido Humanista Dominicano (PHD); Partido Cívico Renovador (PCR) received slightly more than RD$86 millions each, for another 12% of the political funding.
Other parties, the Partido Revolucionario Social Demócrata (PRSD); Movimiento Democrático Alternativo (MODA); Frente Amplio (FAMP); Alianza por la Democracia (APD); Partido País Posible (PP); Partido Liberal Reformista (PLR); Partido Popular Cristiano (PPC); Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata Cristiano (PQDC); Partido Unión Demócrata Cristiana (UDC); al Partido Acción Liberal (PAL); Fuerza Nacional Progresista (FNP); Partido Revolucionario Independiente (PRI); Partido Demócrata Popular (PDP); Partido Nacional Voluntad Ciudadana (PNVC); Partido Opción Democrática (OD) received slight more than RD$26 million each.
Electoral law establishes 5% vote, are considered majority parties. 12% of the budget is distribute among the political parties have hare reached 1% or less than the 5%.
8% of the budget then is distributed among the registered parties that have reached between 00.01 -1% of the votes; in the past election.
In the outcome of the presidential elections, of the majority parties that received each RD$1 billion in funding for their campaigns, the presidential candidate of the PRM, Luis Abinader, received 2,507,297 votes or 57.44%. The candidate for the Fuerza del Pueblo, Leonel Fernandez received 1,259,427 votes or 28.85%, and the candidate for the Dominican Liberation Party received 453,468 votes or 10.39%. The candidate for the Dominican Revolutionary Party, Miguel Vargas, received 19,790 votes or 0.45%.
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El Nuevo Diario
27 May 2024