The Partido Revolucionario Dominicana and its allies’ congressional candidates obtained 1,075,027 votes in the 16 May election, for a 51.35% of the valid votes cast. The Partido de la Liberación Dominicana was favored with 653,966 votes, 31.24% of the total. The Partido Reformista Social Cristiano obtained 352,240 votes, or 16.83%. The results are contained in the final bulletin on the count of the votes issued on 20 May. In the Chamber of Deputies, the PRD 83 of the 149 posts in Congress, 56%. The PLD obtained 49 and the PRSC 17, for the remaining 44%. In the Senate, the PRD won 24 seats, the PLD 4 and the PRSC 2. At the municipal level, the PRD accumulated 1,055,702 votes, or 50.58%, the PLD 649,288, or 31.11% and the Reformistas 361,041 for 17.30%. The PRD obtained the majority in 94 municipalities, the PLD in 13 and the PRSC in 8, for a total of 115. The PRD won in the National District (Santo Domingo), San Cristóbal, Baní, Monte Plata, Azua, San Juan de la Maguana, Barahona, Neiba, Hato Mayor, Santiago, Puerto Plata, Mao, Montecristi, Dajabón and Monseñor Nouel. Also in La Vega, Cotuí, Moca, San Francisco de Macorís, Samaná, Villa Altagracia, Pedernales, Nagua, Río San Juan, Yamasá, Jarabacoa, Constanza and Bajos de Haina. The PLD won in El Seibo, La Romana, Restauración, Villa Tapia, Salcedo, Tenares, Hondo Valle, Jimaní, Vicente Noble, Bohechío, El Llano, Partido and Juan de Herrera. The PRD won in San Pedro de Macoris, Los Llanos, Higuey, Ramón Santana, San Rafael de Yuma, Laguna Salada, El Valle and Consuelo. The municipal and congressional elections were held separately from the presidential elections, a first time in the past 30 years. President of Senate should be impartial Re-elected senator for Monte Plata, Ramon Alburquerque of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano told the press that whom assumes the leadership of the party should not aspire to the presidency. Alburquerque would like to be chosen president of the Senate. He said that he does not seek the presidency. In apparent reference to re-elected senator for Santo Domingo, Milagros Ortíz Bosch, he said party members should not use the position of president of the Senate to promote their presidential aspirations. Ortíz Bosch is the highest rated politician within the PRD. Nevertheless, she has evaded the issue of whether she would run for president in year 2000. She was voted in for a period of 4 years starting 16 August 1998 through 16 August year 2004. In the past, the presidency of the Senate has been an effective platform for those who have aspired to the Presidency or Vice Presidency of the nation.
