{"id":135676,"date":"2020-01-29T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=135676"},"modified":"2020-01-30T02:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T02:30:39","slug":"dominican-liberation-party-pld-disputes-176-city-government-candidacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/29\/dominican-liberation-party-pld-disputes-176-city-government-candidacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) disputes 176 city government candidacies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PLD-logo-794x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125746\" width=\"199\" height=\"256\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The PLD says the candidacies of 176 contenders for municipal positions for other parties violate Political Parties Law 33-18 and Electoral Regime Law 15-19 that ban pre-candidates from switching parties during an election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The motion is untimely. It comes after the ballots for the 16 February 2020 election have already been printed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tem\u00edstocles Mont\u00e1s submitted the motion for the party. The 176 candidates are competing for mayor, city council and other positions in city governments in the 16 February 2020 election. He says several politicians are running for other parties after not being favored with the position in the PLD primary on 6 October 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District electoral boards need to issue a determination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/pld-pide-a-jce-excluir-176-candidatos-dice-son-transfugas\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 January 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PLD says the candidacies of 176 contenders for municipal positions for other parties violate Political Parties Law 33-18 and Electoral Regime Law 15-19 that ban pre-candidates from switching parties during an election campaign. The motion is untimely. It comes after the ballots for the 16 February 2020 election have already been printed. Tem\u00edstocles Mont\u00e1s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/29\/dominican-liberation-party-pld-disputes-176-city-government-candidacies\/\" 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\/135676"}],"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=135676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135727,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135676\/revisions\/135727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}