{"id":134001,"date":"2019-12-09T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134001"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:08:30","slug":"prm-carolina-mejia-to-run-for-national-district-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/09\/prm-carolina-mejia-to-run-for-national-district-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"PRM: Carolina Mej\u00eda to run for National District Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Carolina-Mejia-Alcaldesa-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Carolina-Mejia-Alcaldesa-Listin-Diario.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Carolina-Mejia-Alcaldesa-Listin-Diario-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) announced that party secretary-general Carolina Mej\u00eda is the PRM&#8217;s choice for National District mayor. National District Mayor David Collado announced he would not seek a second term for mayor. Polls gave Collado a sure win if he had attempted to continue in the post. There is speculation PRM presidential candidate Luis Abinader could choose Collado for the vice presidential candidacy. Abinader is the candidate to beat, according to most polls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mej\u00eda is the daughter of former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda (2000-2004). The 50-year old economist was the vice-presidential candidate when Luis Abinader first ran for President in 2016-2020, losing to President Danilo Medina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other candidates registered for mayor for the National District include:<br>\nDomingo Contreras, Dominican Liberation Party (PLD); Hugo Beras, Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD); Bartolom\u00e9 Pujals, Alianza Pa\u00eds (AlPais); former mayor 79-year old Johnny Ventura, La Fuerza del Pueblo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/12\/07\/594814\/carolina-mejia-es-candidata-a-la-alcaldia-de-dn-por-prm\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/prm-proclama-a-carolina-mejia-como-candidata-alcaldesa-dn\/\">El Dia<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/12\/06\/594777\/quien-es-carolina-mejia\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/12\/07\/594821\/discurso-david-collado-mi-gente-de-santo-domingo--\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/prm-proclama-a-carolina-mejia-como-candidata-alcaldesa-dn\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) announced that party secretary-general Carolina Mej\u00eda is the PRM&#8217;s choice for National District mayor. National District Mayor David Collado announced he would not seek a second term for mayor. Polls gave Collado a sure win if he had attempted to continue in the post. There is speculation PRM presidential candidate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/09\/prm-carolina-mejia-to-run-for-national-district-mayor\/\" 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\/134001"}],"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=134001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134027,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134001\/revisions\/134027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}