{"id":111435,"date":"2018-04-12T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111435"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:50:30","slug":"conatras-antonio-marte-returns-to-the-prd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/12\/conatras-antonio-marte-returns-to-the-prd\/","title":{"rendered":"Conatra\u2019s Antonio Marte returns to the PRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112301\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112301\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Antonio-Marte-PRD-Listin-Diario-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Marte and Miguel Vargas \/ List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Transport kingpin Antonio Marte announced he is returning to the PRD political party, the leading PLD political ally. Marte, who is the president of the mega transport company, Confederaci\u00f3n Nacional del Transporte (Conatra) that monopolizes several transport routes, is also the president of the political movement \u201cPrimero la Gente\u201d (First the People).<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of his return to the PRD was made by PRD president Miguel Vargas, who is also Minister of Foreign Relations. Vargas championed the support for the changing of the 2010 Constitution to make possible the reelection of President Danilo Medina in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Marte of Conatra announced the uniting of efforts so together they can foster candidates for the 2020 general election. In his words, Marte recalled that he never left the PRD nor was expelled. As reported, he had expressed his displeasure with the organization when in 2015, the PRD chose to support the re-election of President Danilo Medina.<\/p>\n<p>However, Marte said that at the present time the best solution for the bases of the PRD is an alliance. &#8220;This is a machine with capacity, which is not stopped by anyone or anything &#8230; if we take each other&#8217;s hand, we will achieve that the party conquer the space of power that corresponds to it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Vargas Maldonado welcomed and swore in the main leaders of the political movement &#8220;Primero la Gente&#8221; and assured that its incorporation reaffirms that the PRD continue to be the party of national hope.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the return to the PRD comes at a time when the newly created Institute for Transport and Transit (Intrant) is undertaking major reforms to the transport and transit system.<\/p>\n<p>Managing editor of the Diario Libre editorialized on Monday, 16 April 2018, that something smells fishy in the move.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/04\/16\/510797\/marte-y-seguidores-retornan-al-prd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/am\/algo-se-mueve-CX9642325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16 April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport kingpin Antonio Marte announced he is returning to the PRD political party, the leading PLD political ally. Marte, who is the president of the mega transport company, Confederaci\u00f3n Nacional del Transporte (Conatra) that monopolizes several transport routes, is also the president of the political movement \u201cPrimero la Gente\u201d (First the People). The announcement of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/12\/conatras-antonio-marte-returns-to-the-prd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}