{"id":134797,"date":"2020-01-07T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134797"},"modified":"2020-01-07T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:29:01","slug":"for-final-stretch-of-municipal-election-campaign-jce-announces-ban-on-inaugurating-public-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/07\/for-final-stretch-of-municipal-election-campaign-jce-announces-ban-on-inaugurating-public-works\/","title":{"rendered":"For final stretch of municipal election campaign, JCE announces ban on inaugurating public works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/JCE-El-Dia-e1575304568317.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133743\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) warned on Friday, 3 January 2020, that as of Tuesday, 7 January, public works inaugurations are banned in the country. This includes those carried out by mayors&#8217; offices and the central government. Tuesday marks the start of the final stretch of the municipal electoral campaign for the 16 February 2020 municipal election nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The JCE informed the parties, groups, political movements and citizens in general of the ban, which is called for by the Electoral Regime Law 15-19 and the JCE&#8217;s 2020 Calendar of Administrative Activities and Legal Deadlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article 196, paragraph IV of Law 15-19, establishes the ban on inaugurations during the 40 days before the date set for holding municipal elections and 60 days before the date set for holding presidential and congressional elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the JCE notified that central government, the decentralized public entities and the mayors&#8217; offices should refrain from carrying out extraordinary social or community support programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the JCE announced that 17 January is the deadline for the creation, transfer or merger of polling stations, as per Article 57 of Law 55-19. The same day is the deadline for choosing the premises where the polling stations will operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The JCE has reported that 7,487,040 Dominicans have registered to vote in the 16 February 2020 municipal election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/01\/04\/la-jce-prohibe-inaguraciones\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/jce.gob.do\/Noticias\/corte-del-padron-para-elecciones-municipales-se-realizo-en-octubre-2019\">JCE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 January 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) warned on Friday, 3 January 2020, that as of Tuesday, 7 January, public works inaugurations are banned in the country. This includes those carried out by mayors&#8217; offices and the central government. Tuesday marks the start of the final stretch of the municipal electoral campaign for the 16 February 2020 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/07\/for-final-stretch-of-municipal-election-campaign-jce-announces-ban-on-inaugurating-public-works\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134797"}],"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=134797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134837,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134797\/revisions\/134837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}