1996 – Page 77

The Vice President of the country, Jacinto Peynado, said on Sunday, 30 March that he will win the election with the participation of President Balaguer in his electoral campaign. The presidential candidate for the PRSC said last week, “The elections are won in 24 hours, from the moment polling begins until it ends. As of …

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The political parties agreed to take a break from normal political activities during the Easter weekend which results in thousands of Dominicans going to the beaches, river and mountain vacation areas. The break was requested by the Catholic Church. The parties, nevertheless, remained active with their members providing medical assistance and distributing information to those …

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Freddy Majluta, brother of the late president of the Partido Revolucionario Independiente (PRI), Jacobo Majluta, campaigned for José Francisco Peña Gómez together with other party leaders last week. Mr Majluta feels that the contribution of the PRI to the PRD campaign, as part of the Acuerdo de Santo Domingo coalition of parties, will enable it …

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The name of the influential Secretary to the Presidency, Rafael Bello Andino, one of the closest aides to the President, has been mentioned in the investigations being carried out by the Procurador General de la República, Luís Nelson Pantaleón González, at the request of the General Controller, Victor Grimaldi. The latter has gone public in …

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Bienvenido Alvarez-Vega, writing for the newspaper Hoy, has words of praise for the present electoral campaign. “We are all widely pleased, or at least a large segment of our society, for the high levels, the tolerance and the enriching discussions that the electoral campaign has produced to date,” he writes. “The presidential candidates and the …

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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, César Estrella Sadhalá, said that the list of voters will be printed on fraud-proof paper which will make falsification impossible. He said that the paper is being especially imported for the election. “The voting list is guaranteed because it will be printed on security paper and it will …

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The JCE will be printing a smaller ballot for the 1996 election. The ballot, unlike in the past, will only contain spaces for the parties that are participating in the election. The order in which the parties appear on the ballot is determined by the number of votes they received in the 1994 election. In …

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The Junta Central Electoral has authorized 700 observers for the 16 May election. Of this number, 570 authorizations will be distributed among national institutions per electoral stations. The rest will go to foreign organisations. César Estrella Sadhalá, president of the electoral court, warned that neither the national nor the foreign observers will be able to …

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The president of the JCE, César Estrella Sadhalá, said that he has not observed in President Joaquín Balaguer any “sign of remaining in power” beyond 16 August. “I understand that the President of the Republic has not done anything, nor will do anything, to prolong his term. But then if there is a situation of …

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The Dominican U.S. sugar quota is now 41,411 metric tonnes, as a result of the decision by the Philippines not to accept the increase they were allotted. While it is believed the increase in the preferential quota will mean more hard currency being earned, as a large part of the sugar will be sold for …

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