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With the presence of 21 senators and 81 deputies at the 27 February 2018 military parade commemorating the 174th anniversary of the proclamation of Dominican independence from Haiti has some political analysts interpreting this action as the beginning of a movement for the reelection of President Danilo Medina.<\/p>\n
It was Roberto Rodriguez Marchena, the presidential communications director and government spokesman during a television interview who remarked about the number of legislators attending the parade in order to be next to President Medina.<\/p>\n
All along the entire parade route all the way to the National Congress, there were Medina supporters carrying placards calling for the President to seek four more years. Also along the Malec\u00f3n (the George Washington Ave.) and around independence Park signs calling for \u201c4 more years\u201d and \u201cYou have done well, the people rule\u201d were visible.<\/p>\n
The government spokesman insisted that they were not carrying out a reelection campaign and that the government was concentrating on governing. Rodriguez Marchena said that the President\u2019s Independence Day speech dealt with reality.<\/p>\n
Former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda also says read re-election in Medina\u2019s state of the nation address and recent actions. He said his political nose tells him that President Medina is getting ready to seek reelection and observed that \u201cGod help us and keep us clear of these actions of the President\u201d. Mej\u00eda observed that Medina will again need to amend the Constitution and doubted this would happen, but then he recognized that in this country \u201canything is possible,\u201d he told Channel 11 El D\u00eda TV show hosts Huchi Lora and Amelia Deschamps.<\/p>\n
Mej\u00eda, who amended the Constitution in 2002 so he could seek reelection in 2004, again said he was wrong to do so, having admitted his mistake publicly on several occasions.<\/p>\n
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