2012 – Page 218

Journalist Juan Bolivar Diaz, one of 188 people to whom the Central Electoral Board (JCE) allegedly objected on the list of observers put forward by civic group Participacion Ciudadana for the 20 May 2012 election, is calling for an apology from the JCE. He says that the JCE objected to 236 of the total of …

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With the polls showing Danilo Medina in the lead, the PLD candidate has announced that he has the support of the Chinese immigrants in the DR. The president of the Chinese community in the country, Suking Fong announced his support during an event organized by the organization. Others expressing their support included Ricardo Cheaz, Yuri …

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The Greenberg-Diario Libre poll has Danilo Medina of the PLD edging ahead to win in a first round with 51% to 46% for Hipolito Mejia of the PRD. According to the poll that was carried out 2-7 May with 1,022 people of voting age, Medina will win in the National District (Santo Domingo) 52-44%, in …

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The Alfonso, Cabrera and Asociados polling firm has announced the results of their 10-12 May poll showing that PLD candidate Danilo Medina is leading with 53.6% of the vote to 43.3% of Hipolito Mejia for the PRD. The same poll shows that Guillermo Moreno would receive 2% of the vote, Eduardo Estrella 0.8%, Max Puig …

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Never before have so many electoral polls been carried out in the Dominican Republic. This even includes one carried out by the Datacredito, the leading credit bureau. As reported in Listin Diario, the Superintendence of Banks ordered the entity to desist from carrying out any poll. The Superintendence said that the law that regulates credit …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has trained 287 pastors representing non-Catholic religious denominations to celebrate weddings. In the past, only Catholic Church priests could officiate weddings and followers of other Christian religions had to go through a civil marriage process with a Justice of Peace. As reported in Diario Libre, the JCE is working on …

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Janet Rivera, wife of Ramon Mejia, son of PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, and her brother Tony Rivera, of Induveca-fame, rallied together with her father-in-law in an appeal to PRD president Miguel Vargas to join the campaign for a PRD win in the 20 May election, as reported in Hoy. Vargas, who lost to Hipolito …

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Danilo Medina, campaigning in San Cristobal for the PLD to retain the presidency, says he feels he is riding the wave of a tsunami as his campaign gains strength with the approach of election day. On Saturday, 12 May, he toured Haina, Nigua and San Cristobal. Medina described the support he encountered on the way …

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The National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif), required by law to gather evidence at a crime scene and in the case of natural death, does not have enough specialists to certify the dead. As reported in Hoy, the institute relies on limited numbers of medical examiners to do its work. This leads to long waits …

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Compania Panamericana de Tabacos, C. por A., the Santiago-based company where workers were hospitalized last week following a leak from a propane tank, reports that measures were preventive and that no one is seriously ill. The company that employs around 400 at its Licey al Medio plant says that all is back to normal after …

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