{"id":137611,"date":"2020-03-11T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137611"},"modified":"2020-03-11T22:19:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T22:19:17","slug":"extraordinary-elections-to-cost-rd1-58-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/extraordinary-elections-to-cost-rd1-58-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary elections to cost RD$1.58 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elecciones-extraordinarias-valijas-El-Dia-e1583962180140.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137629\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The staging of the rescheduled municipal elections on Sunday, 15 March 2020 is said to cost Dominican taxpayers RD$1,578 million, according to the budget approved for the event by the Budget Agency. The Medina administration has said that RD$753 million will be available for distribution to political parties participating in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported in El Dia, the elections have cost the government more than RD$4 billion, of which RD$1,008 million were allocated to purchase the now discard e-voting devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/elecciones-extraordinarias-costaran-rd1578-millones\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staging of the rescheduled municipal elections on Sunday, 15 March 2020 is said to cost Dominican taxpayers RD$1,578 million, according to the budget approved for the event by the Budget Agency. The Medina administration has said that RD$753 million will be available for distribution to political parties participating in the event. As reported in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/extraordinary-elections-to-cost-rd1-58-billion\/\" 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\/137611"}],"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=137611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137630,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137611\/revisions\/137630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}