Dolores Vicioso – Page 8208

The Junta Central Electoral reminded political parties that they have until 16 March to register their presidential and vice presidential candidates, to conform with the Electoral Law. The presidential candidates for the PRSC and the PLD are, however, expected to choose their running mates much before that date. The PRSC statutes leaves the choice of …

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Dr. Leonel Fernández, the presidential candidate for the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, described his adversary from the PRD, José Francisco Peña Gómez, as a “political fossil,” who has let his opportunities for becoming President of the Republic slip past him. He said that Dr Peña let go good opportunities in the elections of 1982, …

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Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Marquez, and former Colombian President, Julio César Turbay Ayala, whose government in 1981 was accused of forcing the novelist into exile, were reconciled during a meeting at Casa de Campo in La Romana that lasted seven hours. Mr Turbay was president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982, and Gabriel …

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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr Cesar Estrella Sahdalá, had no comment to make about a rumored maneuver condemned by PRD presidential candidate, José Francisco Peña Gómez, to name his nephew, the senator for Santiago, Eduardo Estrella, as the vice presidential candidate for the PRSC, thereby forcing him to resign from his post. …

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Leonel Fernandez, presidential candidate of the PLD, won favor with businessmen last week, when he advocated the abolition of the consular invoice, or factura consular. The illegal government levy on imports favors those assigned to consulates abroad by way of personal enrichment, for past political support, to use the words of a former under minister …

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The political parties have until 16 February to formally announce political alliances. So far, the party with the most is the PRD and its Acuerdo de Santo Domingo coalition. It brings together the following minority parties: Partido de la Unidad Democrática (UD,), Partido Nacional de Veteranos y Civiles (PNFC), Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata (PQD), Partido Democrático …

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In a commentary last week in the newspaper Hoy, Jesus de la Rosa, a staunch PRD man who was also in charge of the last census, criticized the positions of Jacinto Peynado and Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who have both claimed that a large number of Haitians have been given voting cards to …

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The governor of the Patronato del Faro a Colón, a long time PRSC party leader, has instructed those resident in the area near the monument to Columbus not to allow the placing of political propaganda on the walls, plazas or in the parking areas surrounding the Faro. Morales Troncoso has also been very vocal about …

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The secretary general of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, Licenciado, Hatuey de Camps, has suggested that the JCE contract a foreign company to audit the padron electoral., or voters list. He said that in Mexico this was undertaken by a Canadian company with satisfactory results. The PRSC has protested against some 75,000 alleged irregularities, principally involving …

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