{"id":132224,"date":"2019-10-22T13:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=132224"},"modified":"2019-10-22T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:07:54","slug":"demostenes-martinez-resigns-running-for-the-pld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/demostenes-martinez-resigns-running-for-the-pld\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem\u00f3stenes Mart\u00ednez resigns running for the PLD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deputy Dem\u00f3stenes Mart\u00ednez joined several Dominican Liberation Party members who announced on Monday they are resigning to follow former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez. Fern\u00e1ndez had announced he was resigning from the party after a 46-year long membership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dem\u00f3stenes Mart\u00ednez had been elected in the PLD primary on 6 October 2019 to run for deputy in the congressional election in May 2020. In his letter to Reinaldo Pared P\u00e9rez, secretary-general of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Mart\u00ednez requested that his candidacy not be registered before the electoral agency. Mart\u00ednez said the candidacy was won in an election plagued with irregularities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an agreement signed between former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez and President Danilo Medina in August 2019, Mart\u00ednez should have been named to preside over the Chamber of Deputies. Medina did not honor the agreement and his followers in the Chamber of Deputies voted instead to reelect Radham\u00e9s Camacho, a strong Medina supporter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/10\/21\/587774\/demostenes-martinez-renuncia-del-pld-pide-no-inscriban-candidatura-por-irregularidades-del-proceso\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Dem\u00f3stenes Mart\u00ednez joined several Dominican Liberation Party members who announced on Monday they are resigning to follow former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez. Fern\u00e1ndez had announced he was resigning from the party after a 46-year long membership. Dem\u00f3stenes Mart\u00ednez had been elected in the PLD primary on 6 October 2019 to run for deputy in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/demostenes-martinez-resigns-running-for-the-pld\/\" 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\/132224"}],"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=132224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132225,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132224\/revisions\/132225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}