2012 – Page 206

Yesterday, Tuesday 22 May, Danilo Medina, President-elect and Vice President-elect Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez received messages of congratulations from several countries, as reported in El Dia. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton praised the peaceful and orderly organization of the presidential election and congratulated the winner, Danilo Medina of …

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According to UK newspaper the Financial Times, the markets are relieved that Danilo Medina won the Dominican elections. The newspaper reported that there wasn’t that much of a difference, ideologically at least, between the two leading candidates but Medina was considered the “stability candidate” more likely to follow in the footsteps of his well-liked predecessor, …

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Last night, Tuesday 22 May, PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, acknowledged Danilo Medina’s victory in the Sunday presidential elections, and proclaimed himself leader of the opposition. He said that in that role, he would work in defense of the national interests and the preservation of peace of the Dominican family. During a speech from a …

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PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado, who kept a low profile during the presidential campaign, says that his party would exercise firm and responsible opposition to the new government. In a declaration last night, Tuesday 22 May, he announced national consultations to prepare for adjustments to the party’s methods and strategies and a re-launch of their …

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Market research company Bendixen and Amandi, which promised to donate a million pesos to the Dominican League against Cancer in the event that their predictions about the election results were not accurate, began to make contact yesterday, Tuesday 22 May, with the League in order to fulfill their promise. They had predicted that PRD presidential …

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In Hoy newspaper’s op-ed page today, political analyst Bernardo Vega comments that Dominican expats changed their voting patterns in the 2012 presidential election. He says that in 2008 presidential election Dominicans abroad voted 60.6% in favor of the PLD, and 35.73% for the PRD and 2.41% for the PRSC, which had fielded its own candidate. …

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Edwin Paraison, a former Haitian consul in the Dominican Republic, now the executive director of the Fundacion Zile, said that while there are no reliable statistics, he estimated that Dominicans of Haitian descent had made up 5% of the total vote. “In some voting stations the percentage of Dominicans of Haitian descent was 50%,” he …

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Campos de Moya, the new president of the British Chamber of Commerce has listed the three main goals for his term at the helm of the business group. He wants to encourage the UK government to return to the practice of issuing visas to travel to the UK in the DR. At present, passports are …

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At least 60 patients were hospitalized yesterday in Tamboril with suspected cholera symptoms. Many of the cases are affecting people who were sick during the previous outbreak, which suggests a problem with their water supply. The deputy minister of Collective Health, Jose Rodriguez Aybar said Public Health is visiting every home in the area to …

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The Police reported that Brianna Hunt, 4, died Monday, 21 May of trauma after falling from a ninth floor apartment where she lived with her parents at Torre Segunda Sinfonia, at the corner of Calle Fantino Falco and Alberto Cuello streets in Naco, reported the Police in Santo Domingo. The Police said they are still …

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