{"id":136309,"date":"2020-02-12T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=136309"},"modified":"2020-02-12T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:15:35","slug":"leonel-fernandez-party-backs-pld-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/leonel-fernandez-party-backs-pld-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez party backs PLD candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bautista-Rojas-El-Nuevo-Diario-e1581524122568.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136332\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People\u2019s Force (FP) politician Bautista Rojas G\u00f3mez revealed that in the Sunday, 16 February 2020 municipal election that organization will not get many votes because they have decided to support more than 100 candidates of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). The People\u2019s Force was created after the president of the PLD, former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, split from the party on 20 October,  complaining he had been victim of fraud in the 6 October 2020 party primary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So, many of the votes of Fuerza del Pueblo, on this occasion, will go to support important municipal and municipal district candidates of the old party, because they are former comrades who deserve respect, our solidarity and our accompaniment,&#8221; said Rojas G\u00f3mez when interviewed on the program Cuentas Claras, which is broadcast on La Nota 95.7 FM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The politician insisted that in Sunday&#8217;s elections, they will not reach a high percentage of votes, &#8220;but, apart from making these former comrades win, we are going to win many municipalities and municipal districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many Fern\u00e1ndez close followers left the party, others that had strong possibilities of winning at the municipal and congressional levels chose to continue to run on the PLD ticket. Such are the cases of Abel Mart\u00ednez who is running for mayor in Santiago, and Carlos Guzm\u00e1n, who is running for mayor for Santo Domingo North. Likewise, senators Amarilis Santana for La Romana, Felix Bautista for San Juan de la Maguana, Jos\u00e9 Rafael Vargas for Espaillat, among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the acting president of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) Eddy Alcantara expressed his concern about Rojas G\u00f3mez\u2019s statement. The PRSC had allied with the FP to promote several joint candidacies, including that of former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez. The PRSC urged not to vote for \u201cavocado candidates\u201d. The name refers to those that are purple (the color of the PLD) outside and green (the color of the FP) inside, or those that are partisan to Fern\u00e1ndez, but stayed in the PLD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 February is the deadline for political parties to register their open alliances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/bauta-rojas-gomez-fp-no-sacara-muchos-votos-porque-apoyara-mas-de-100-candidatos-del-pld\/\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/fuerza-del-pueblo-apoyara-candidatos-del-pld-afines\/\">El Dia<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cachicha.com\/2020\/02\/conoce-cuales-son-los-candidatos-aguacates\/\">Cachicha<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 February 2020 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People\u2019s Force (FP) politician Bautista Rojas G\u00f3mez revealed that in the Sunday, 16 February 2020 municipal election that organization will not get many votes because they have decided to support more than 100 candidates of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). The People\u2019s Force was created after the president of the PLD, former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/leonel-fernandez-party-backs-pld-candidates\/\" 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\/136309"}],"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=136309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136333,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136309\/revisions\/136333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}