Presidential candidates are receiving free air time and online and print space to outline their government programs and why people should vote for them. The presentations began on Tuesday, 30 April with the interview to President Luis Abinader who seeks to be reelected on 19 May 2024. Most polls show Abinader winning comfortably, with more than 60% and 20 points over his nearest rival, former three-time President Leonel Fernandez.
During his presentation, Abinader stressed that his first government happened when the country was under the duress of the Covid-19 pandemic, the assassination of Jovenel Moise in Haiti and the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He insisted that now that the economy has recovered “the best is yet to come.”
In the series of interviews, “The Proposals of the Candidates,” each of the nine presidential candidates have been invited to the interviews by TV host Roberto Cavada and Jose Monegro, executive editor of El Dia. Editors and directors of Hoy, El Nacional, El Dia and Listin Diario are on the panel of journalists that also pose questions to the presidential candidates.
The TV time is 8 to 10pm on Telesistema (Channel 11), TeleAntillas (Channel 2) and Coral (Channel 39).
The program re-airs the next morning at 7am.
The schedule for the presentations is:
30 April: President Luis Abinader (PRM)
1 May: Abel Martinez (PLD)
2 May: Leonel Fernandez (FP)
3 May: Miguel Vargas Maldonado (PRD)
The air time continues from 6 to 10 May with interviews at 7am by journalists Edith Febles and Adalberto Grullon. The schedule is:
6 May: Maria Teresa Cabrera (Frente Amplio)
7 May: Fulgencio Severino (Patria para Todos)
8 May: Carlos Peña (Generación de Servidores)
9 May: Virginia Antares Rodriguez (Opcion Democratica)
10 May: Roque Espaillat (Partido
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1 May 2024