The top brass of the Political Committee of the ruling PLD party will meet tonight. The 35 members will decide who will preside over the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The Political Committee is led by party president, former President Leonel Fernandez, party secretary general Reinaldo Pared (today president of the Senate), President Danilo Medina and Vice President Margarita Cedeno, who is the wife of former President Fernandez.
The meetings are to be held behind closed doors.
The PLD has majority control of the both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Reinaldo Pared has indicated that he will not continue as president of the Senate so that he can dedicate time to his expressed desire to win the PLD presidential candidacy in the 2016 election.
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