1996 – Page 63

President Joaquin Balaguer has appointed Jose Carlos Isaias, as Ambassador to Great Britain under decree 142-96, issued on 30 April. Mr. Isaias has held many positions in governments headed by Dr. Balaguer, including Technical Secretary of the Presidency and director of the Dominican Export Promotion Center. 10-16 May 1996

The five candidates for the presidency of the country, José Francisco Peña Gómez, Leonel Fernández, Jacinto Peynado, Rafael Alburquerque and José Rafael Abinader signed an agreement last week, el Pacto por el Respeto a la Constitución y por la Gobernabilidad, committing their acceptance of the results of the election as declared by the Junta Central …

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The Partido del Pueblo Dominicano (PPD) has signed an agreement with the PLD to support its presidential and vice presidential candidates, Leonel Fernández and Jaime David Fernández. The PPD candidates, Rafael Alburquerque and Dalia Féliz, requested that the JCE cancel their candidatures and called for their supporters to vote for the PLD. As the ballot …

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The Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) gave a press conference on Friday, 3 May to announce a supposed conspiracy against the life of its presidential candidate, José Francisco Peña Gómez. The previous day, Dr Peña Gómez himself had condemned the existence of an alleged plan to hinder the election, by provoking armed confrontations between members of …

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Santo Domingo’s Senator, Milagros Ortiz Bosch, of the PRD, upon returning from the press conference, stopped a truck with official plates containing personnel that had been instructed to remove all the candidates political posters. As proof of what she called the obstruction of the PRD’s campaign, she retained the vehicle’s number plate. It turned out …

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President Balaguer continued on his silent campaign trail principally in the company of Maribel Gassó, vice presidential candidate for the PRSC, and was received enthusiastically by throngs of Reformistas. (The President has chosen not to speak to the press at the rallies.) Maribel, politically an unknown previous to her selection, has now become a popular …

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José Francisco Peña Gómez, on his radio program Tribuna Democrática, and on a full page in the Listín Diario on Saturday, 4 May says that he believes that sectors related to the anillo palaciego, or inner circle of the Presidency, are interested in inciting the differences between the PLD and the PRD in order to …

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In his talk on Tribuna Democrática, José Francisco Peña Gómez also had strong words against the PLD for taking up the racist campaign tactics used by the PRSC in the last election. “For us it is inconceivable that a party so committed to the democratic struggle of the country, as is the Liberación Dominicana, presided …

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Maribel Gasso, vice presidential candidate for the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano, said that the true polls are the large crowds that President Joaquín Balaguer is attracting with his campaign tours throughout the country. She said that the PRSC has made a big comeback in the last few weeks and is now near the front runners …

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Jacinto Peynado promised that if he wins the election he will work to create a modern, harmonious state, that will be totally ethical so that its institutions may function properly. He said that there will be electricity, taxes will be collected, and that there will be more opportunities for business and more jobs. The government …

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