The largest opposition party Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) announced alliances with Frente Amplio for the candidacy of businessman Antonio Taveras Guzman for senator for the Santo Domingo province. The PRM also announced an alliance to register engineer Eduardo Estrella of Dominicans for Change (DxC) political party as senator to the province of Santiago.
Taveras was running for the position on the Frente Amplio ticket and also has the support of Alianza Pais and Coalición Democrática. Taveras was president of the Herrera Industrial Association. His criticism about irregularities in government caused a halt to the signing of the Electricity Pact. He will compete against Cristina Lizardo Mezquita, who seeks to repeat in the position for the PLD. He was the first candidate announced by the PRM in advance of the conformation of the candidacies of the party in November.
Eduardo Estrella will run for the PRM coalition. This would be his second time as senator for Santiago.
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21 October 2019