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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Manuel Ramón Morel Cerda said that representatives from the Organization of American States, the Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral para América Latina (CAPEL), the International Foundation of Electoral Systems and the Carter Center will be in the DR to observe the election simulacrum scheduled for this weekend. …

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The PRD said that the final push of its electoral campaign starts Sunday, 9 April and that their campaign concludes Sunday, 14 May. According to a news item in Hoy newspaper, the PRD internal polls show their candidate leading with a 51.3% preference of voters, followed by Joaquín Balaguer (PRSC) with 24% and Danilo Medina …

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José Francisco Peña Guaba and Angela Peña, offspring of the late PRD leader José Francisco Peña Gómez visited the National Palace yesterday separately. Peña Guaba met with Technical Secretary of the Presidency Temístocles Montás, while his sister met with Secretary of the Presidency Alejandrina Germán. Peña Gómez’s offspring both announced their support to the candidacy …

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El Siglo newspaper Penn, Schoen & Berland poll shows that in a second electoral round, Hipólito Mejía of the PRD would win the election regardless of whether his contender were Joaquín Balaguer of the PRSC or Danilo Medina of the PLD. The survey shows that if Mejía were to run against Balaguer, the results would …

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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Manuel Ramón Morel Cerda promised that the presidential election not only will be transparent and open, but the general public will know the results very rapidly due to the new computer systems being installed. Companies working on these systems are Price, Datocentro and Codetel. He spoke at this …

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Hoy newspaper’s Coctelera column speculates on the thoroughness of ground studies carried out prior to the building of the Isabela Airport in El Higuero, north of Santo Domingo. The newspaper page two columnist says that one of the arguments used by the government to build the new airport was that the Herrera airport’s landing strip …

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President Leonel Fernández shuffled government posts yesterday. He appointed Iván Brugal Velázquez, who was deputy minister of Foreign Relations as the new president of the National Council of Superior Education. He replaces Ana Silvia Reynoso de Abud who was appointed president of the Presidential Council for Culture. There she in turn replaces, Cayo Claudio Espinal …

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The Municipality of Santo Domingo announced its new motorized police corps will begin work during Easter Week. The new force will be riding 10 modern Harley Davidson motorbikes that were donated to the city of Santo Domingo by the city of Taipei, Taiwan. They will work in coordination with the National Emergency Commission on occasion …

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