{"id":122503,"date":"2019-02-12T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=122503"},"modified":"2019-02-13T01:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:29:56","slug":"government-ministers-against-financing-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/12\/government-ministers-against-financing-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Government ministers against financing primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JCE-logo-1013x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121633\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Hacienda, Administrative Minister of the Presidency and Minister of Economy rejected the decision by the Central Electoral Board (JCE) by which the Dominican government would need to pick up most of the cost for the organization of the primaries for the political parties to choose their candidates for the 2020 general election. The JCE has committed to cover around RD$1.25 billion of the estimated RD$1.5 billion cost of the simultaneous primaries that are set for 6 October 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a meeting held on Monday, 11 February 2019 at the JCE, five political parties (PLD, PRM, PRD, Al Pais, Opci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica) again agreed that the JCE lobby for the around RD$1.25 billion needed from the central government.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/dice-partidos-deben-pagar-costo-primarias\/\">El&nbsp;Nacional<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/gobierno-dice-que-para-financiar-primarias-hay-que-modificar-el-presupuesto-IH12049203\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/02\/11\/553113\/jce-y-partidos-hablaran-con-gobierno-por-presupuesto-de-primarias\">Listin&nbsp;Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/la-jce-y-cinco-partidos-buscarian-rd-1-249-millones-para-primarias-IE12071786\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 February 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Hacienda, Administrative Minister of the Presidency and Minister of Economy rejected the decision by the Central Electoral Board (JCE) by which the Dominican government would need to pick up most of the cost for the organization of the primaries for the political parties to choose their candidates for the 2020 general election. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/12\/government-ministers-against-financing-primaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122503"}],"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=122503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122580,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122503\/revisions\/122580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}