Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, who is also the president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), an ally to the PLD, says the party support is exclusive to President Danilo Medina. PRD legislators in 2015 voted in favor of changing the 2010 Constitution so that Medina could run for his first re-election.
Now Vargas Maldonado said the PRD backs the second re-election of Danilo Medina. Vargas said he favors the reform of the Constitution to enable Medina to be the PLD presidential candidate in the 2020 general election. The push for Medina to continue in power has generated considerable controversy within the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), opposition party members and members of civil society.
Vargas Maldonado said that the PRD will only appeal to its members to vote for the PLD if Medina is the candidate.
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El Caribe
11 July 2019