{"id":140992,"date":"2020-04-27T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=140992"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:13:09","slug":"pld-bets-on-retaining-power-in-a-second-round-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/27\/pld-bets-on-retaining-power-in-a-second-round-election\/","title":{"rendered":"PLD bets on retaining power in a second round election?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-Tomas-Perez-Twitter-e1587996765945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141037\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican ambassador to the United States, politician Jos\u00e9 Tom\u00e1s P\u00e9rez urges that efforts be made to convince former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez to give his support to PLD presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo in the event of a second round vote being needed. Fern\u00e1ndez was the president of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) until he resigned alleging fraud in the party primary won by Castillo. Fern\u00e1ndez split from the party founding the People\u2019s Force to run for the Presidency. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has rescheduled the presidential and congressional election for 5 July 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P\u00e9rez said that if none of the presidential candidates obtains more than 50% + 1 of the votes cast, and a second round has to be held, Fern\u00e1ndez or Gonzalo Castillo of the PLD should support whomever of the two obtains the most votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is in the country&#8217;s interest, in this situation of global pandemic, to have a second round agreement between the PLD and Leonel Fernandez&#8217;s party, where the one who gets fewer votes supports the one who gets more votes, the ambassador wrote in his Twitter account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All highly reputed polls forecast that Luis Abinader of the PRM has a comfortable lead over Gonzalo Castillo of the PLD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/el-acuerdo-que-propone-jose-tomas-perez-a-gonzalo-castillo-y-leonel-fernandez\/\">Hoy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/04\/25\/jose-tomas-perez-afirma-que-en-tiempos-de-covid-19-a-rd-le-conviene-union-entre-pld-y-leonel\/\">El Caribe  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican ambassador to the United States, politician Jos\u00e9 Tom\u00e1s P\u00e9rez urges that efforts be made to convince former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez to give his support to PLD presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo in the event of a second round vote being needed. Fern\u00e1ndez was the president of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) until he resigned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/27\/pld-bets-on-retaining-power-in-a-second-round-election\/\" 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\/140992"}],"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=140992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141039,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140992\/revisions\/141039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}