The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) confirmed a previous decision to annul all decisions made during the 34th Extraordinary Convention of the party held on 3 December 2017. During the convention, today Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado was confirmed as president of the political party through 2021. Vargas and the vote of PRD legislators were key to the reelection of President Danilo Medina in 2016. Subsequently, Vargas was appointed Minister of Foreign Relations.
Party dissidents had protested the convention and took the case to the TSE that had ruled in their favor in March 2018. But Vargas took the case to the Constitutional Court that ordered it to be heard again by the TSE.
Politicians Guido Gómez Mazara and Tony Rutinel saluted the decision and called for the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to suspend the delivery of government funds until new authorities of the party are elected.
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9 April 2019