{"id":125698,"date":"2019-04-30T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=125698"},"modified":"2019-05-01T02:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T02:51:52","slug":"higher-electoral-court-judge-reports-on-visit-by-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/30\/higher-electoral-court-judge-reports-on-visit-by-us-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Electoral Court judge reports on visit by US ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Roman-Jaquez-Liranzo-and-Robin-Bernstein-Listin-Diario.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125742\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Roman-Jaquez-Liranzo-and-Robin-Bernstein-Listin-Diario.png 294w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Roman-Jaquez-Liranzo-and-Robin-Bernstein-Listin-Diario-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>US Ambassador Robin Bernstein last week visited president of the Higher Electoral Court (TSE), Ram\u00f3n J\u00e1quez Liranzo. J\u00e1quez is under pressure from the ruling PLD party after the court issued a ruling annulling the 2015 convention that elected Miguel Vargas Maldonado, president of the PRD, a leading PLD ally. As leader of the PRD, in 2015 Vargas would ally the party with the ruling PLD in its bid for amendments to the Constitution to enable the reelection of President Danilo Medina. President Medina then would name Vargas Maldonado as the DR\u2019s foreign minister and PRD vice president Janet Camilo as the DR\u2019s minister for women.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the press release, the TSE reported that TSE President J\u00e1quez Liranzo received the US Ambassador to discuss the challenges ahead in the primaries of the political parties, as well as general matters regarding the presidential, legislative and municipal elections set for 2020. PLD party secretary and president of the Senate, Reinaldo Pared P\u00e9rez, has called for the Chamber of Deputies to interpellate the judges that voted in favor of the TSE annulment, on the grounds that \u201cone does not fool around with power.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/04\/26\/562862\/embajadora-de-eeuu-visita-al-presionado-presidente-del-tse\">Listin&nbsp;Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador Robin Bernstein last week visited president of the Higher Electoral Court (TSE), Ram\u00f3n J\u00e1quez Liranzo. J\u00e1quez is under pressure from the ruling PLD party after the court issued a ruling annulling the 2015 convention that elected Miguel Vargas Maldonado, president of the PRD, a leading PLD ally. As leader of the PRD, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/30\/higher-electoral-court-judge-reports-on-visit-by-us-ambassador\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125698"}],"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=125698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125743,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125698\/revisions\/125743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}