Women Minister Janet Camilo, speaking as vice president and electoral director for the Dominican Revolutionary Party, a strong ally to the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), explained that after much deliberations the party echelons understood they could not afford the deduction of RD$120 million the Central Electoral Board (JCE) would make to their funds to finance just one candidacy, the Presidency. She explained that the funds were needed to prepare another 4,000 candidacies nationwide.
Camilo said the party has yet to announce how the presidential candidate will be chosen. In addition to the primaries, the Dominican Political Parties Law 33-18 also allows for polls (by pollsters approved by the Central Electoral Board) and party conventions with the participation of party militants, delegates and leaders.
She said in an interview with Huchi Lora and Carolina Santana for El Dia on Telesistema Channel 11 that there was time because the pre-campaign starts on 7 July 2019, and parties that do not choose the primary method have until the last Sunday in October, or 27 October 2019, to select their candidates.
In the interview, she said the party has not decided on whether it will again ally with the ruling PLD party. “The political situation is not yet defined,” she said.
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TV – El Dia with Huchi Lora
8 April 2019