{"id":129163,"date":"2019-07-30T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=129163"},"modified":"2019-07-31T03:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T03:11:42","slug":"leonelistas-say-timing-is-off-for-constitutional-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/30\/leonelistas-say-timing-is-off-for-constitutional-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonelistas say timing is off for constitutional reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Leonelistas-Nuria.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Leonelistas-Nuria.png 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Leonelistas-Nuria-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Followers of former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez say that this is not time to resume talks about constitutional reform. In a press conference on Monday, 29 July 2019, Bautista Rojas (Bauta) said that presidential pre-candidate Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez is concentrating on winning the 6 October 2019 party primary. The press conference was called to address the recent proposals by the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) and PRM party leader former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda. The PRSC and Mej\u00eda favor reforming the 2015 Constitution to enable President Danilo Medina to seek the presidency in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Vice President Rafael Alburquerque says there can be no talk of constitutional reform in the middle of an electoral process. He did not discard that afterward, all Dominican sectors could reach a consensus to open discussions for constitutional reform in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez himself has not spoken publicly after President Danilo Medina announced on Monday, 22 July 2019 that he would not seek reelection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/07\/29\/576044\/leonelistas-dicen-no-es-tiempo-de-reforma-constitucional-porque-estamos-en-medio-de-proceso-electoral\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2019\/07\/29\/sector-de-leonel-dice-no-es-momento-de-reformar-la-constitucion-para-habilitar-a-medina\/\">N Digital<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 July 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Followers of former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez say that this is not time to resume talks about constitutional reform. In a press conference on Monday, 29 July 2019, Bautista Rojas (Bauta) said that presidential pre-candidate Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez is concentrating on winning the 6 October 2019 party primary. The press conference was called to address the recent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/30\/leonelistas-say-timing-is-off-for-constitutional-reform\/\" 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\/129163"}],"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=129163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129210,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129163\/revisions\/129210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}