{"id":126262,"date":"2019-05-14T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=126262"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:52:49","slug":"ruling-pld-party-political-committee-meeting-tells-nothing-on-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/14\/ruling-pld-party-political-committee-meeting-tells-nothing-on-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruling PLD party political committee meeting tells nothing on reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Comite-Politico-PLD-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Comite-Politico-PLD-Listin-Diario.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Comite-Politico-PLD-Listin-Diario-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Danilo Medina and the president of the ruling PLD party, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez met last night for the meeting of the Political Committee of the party that gathers 34 influential members. Fern\u00e1ndez is campaigning to be the PLD presidential candidate, but followers of Medina want him to seek a third term.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that 31 members attended the meeting. Absent were ambassadors Jos\u00e9 Tom\u00e1s P\u00e9rez and C\u00e9sar Pina Toribio, and founding member of the PLD, Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Bid\u00f3 Medina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee is said to be that which decides what goes in government as the ruling party has a stronghold of those appointed to head the legislative and judicial branches of government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, despite expectations, President Danilo Medina did not make an announcement of whether he will back the supporters that seek the 2015 Constitution be amended to allow him to run for a third term in office. Secretary general of the PLD, the president of the Senate Reinaldo Pared Perez said the matter was not covered during the meeting, nor is there a date when it will be covered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/05\/14\/565349\/comite-politico-del-pld-evita-tocar-el-tema-de-la-reeleccion\">Listin&nbsp;Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Danilo Medina and the president of the ruling PLD party, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez met last night for the meeting of the Political Committee of the party that gathers 34 influential members. Fern\u00e1ndez is campaigning to be the PLD presidential candidate, but followers of Medina want him to seek a third term. It was reported that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/14\/ruling-pld-party-political-committee-meeting-tells-nothing-on-reelection\/\" 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\/126262"}],"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=126262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126357,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126262\/revisions\/126357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}