{"id":113421,"date":"2018-06-12T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=113421"},"modified":"2018-06-12T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:37:53","slug":"constitutional-court-to-hear-case-that-would-allow-danilo-medina-to-stand-again-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/12\/constitutional-court-to-hear-case-that-would-allow-danilo-medina-to-stand-again-for-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Court to hear case that would allow Danilo Medina to stand again for reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 11 June 2018, the Constitutional Court had a public audience to hear the case in which lawyer Fredermiro Ferreras D\u00edaz requested a Constitutional Court hearing and judgement on the interpretation in the Constitution that bans President Danilo Medina from being reelected.<\/p>\n<p>Although D\u00edaz subsequently withdrew his suit, the case is continuing with the participation of Jos\u00e9 S\u00e1nchez Lebr\u00f3n, Gregorio Cabrera, representing the Citizen\u2019s Alliance for the Defense of Fundamental Rights, as well as Leidy Manuel Capell\u00e1n and Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez Brito.<\/p>\n<p>The court has allowed a time period of six days for arguments to be heard, following which the Constitutional Court is giving itself four months to make its ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/06\/11\/519101\/tc-conoce-accion-contra-disposicion-que-prohibe-reeleccion-de-danilo-medina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/recurso-constitucional-para-reeleccion-presidencial-de-danilo-medina-sigue-vivo-tc-da-plazo-a-las-partes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12 June 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 11 June 2018, the Constitutional Court had a public audience to hear the case in which lawyer Fredermiro Ferreras D\u00edaz requested a Constitutional Court hearing and judgement on the interpretation in the Constitution that bans President Danilo Medina from being reelected. Although D\u00edaz subsequently withdrew his suit, the case is continuing with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/12\/constitutional-court-to-hear-case-that-would-allow-danilo-medina-to-stand-again-for-reelection\/\" 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\/113421"}],"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=113421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}