{"id":132295,"date":"2019-10-23T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=132295"},"modified":"2019-10-23T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:49:16","slug":"fernandez-to-be-proclaimed-presidential-candidate-but-will-he-be-allowed-to-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/23\/fernandez-to-be-proclaimed-presidential-candidate-but-will-he-be-allowed-to-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandez to be proclaimed presidential candidate \u2013 but will he be allowed to stand?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Partido-de-los-Trabajadores-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Partido-de-los-Trabajadores-Listin-Diario.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Partido-de-los-Trabajadores-Listin-Diario-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the Dominican Workers&#8217; Party (PTD), Ant\u00f3nio Flori\u00e1n said that the former President of the Republic Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez will be named the presidential candidate for the new Power to the People Party (LFP) on Sunday 27 October, during a national convention of the party delegates. He said that at least six other parties would join in, proclaiming Fernandez as their presidential candidate. During the same event, the party&#8217;s municipal and congressional candidates would be proclaimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flori\u00e1n said the present political headquarters used by Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez would be the headquarter for the LFP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is speculation as to whether the Central Electoral Board (JCE) will accept the candidacy, as Fern\u00e1ndez had already opted to run for another party and lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/10\/22\/588033\/julio-cury-dice-leonel-no-puede-aspirar-ni-a-regidor\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/10\/22\/588048\/leonel-sera-proclamado-como-candidato-presidencial-el-domingo\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Dominican Workers&#8217; Party (PTD), Ant\u00f3nio Flori\u00e1n said that the former President of the Republic Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez will be named the presidential candidate for the new Power to the People Party (LFP) on Sunday 27 October, during a national convention of the party delegates. He said that at least six other parties &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/23\/fernandez-to-be-proclaimed-presidential-candidate-but-will-he-be-allowed-to-stand\/\" 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\/132295"}],"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=132295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132317,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132295\/revisions\/132317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}