{"id":134394,"date":"2019-12-18T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134394"},"modified":"2019-12-18T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:26:48","slug":"jce-clears-changing-name-of-dominican-workers-party-to-force-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/18\/jce-clears-changing-name-of-dominican-workers-party-to-force-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"JCE clears changing name of Dominican Workers Party to Force of the People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/JCE-El-Caribe.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134417\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) approved the change of name of the political party Partido de los Trabajadores Dominicanos (Dominican Workers Party) to that of Fuerza del Pueblo (The Force of the People). The Force of the People (LFP) was created after former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez claimed he had won the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) primary, but was a victim of electoral fraud. Fern\u00e1ndez is the presidential candidate for the People\u2019s Force and a coalition of other political parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitutional Court has yet to rule on several recourses on whether former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez can run for another party in the election after having competed in the PLD primary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2019\/12\/17\/jce-aprueba-cambio-de-nombre-del-ptd-a-la-fuerza-del-pueblo\/\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) approved the change of name of the political party Partido de los Trabajadores Dominicanos (Dominican Workers Party) to that of Fuerza del Pueblo (The Force of the People). The Force of the People (LFP) was created after former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez claimed he had won the ruling Dominican Liberation Party &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/18\/jce-clears-changing-name-of-dominican-workers-party-to-force-of-the-people\/\" 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\/134394"}],"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=134394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134418,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134394\/revisions\/134418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}