{"id":142121,"date":"2020-05-27T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=142121"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:37:13","slug":"fernandez-says-hes-so-democratic-he-sleeps-with-the-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/05\/27\/fernandez-says-hes-so-democratic-he-sleeps-with-the-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez says he’s so democratic he sleeps with the opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez is running again for the Presidency, this time on the People’s Force ticket. His wife, Margarita Cede\u00f1o, who was his first lady, is now seeking a third term as Vice President for the ruling party, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). Cede\u00f1o is the running mate with Gonzalo Castillo, the PLD presidential candidate who at last minute competed against Fern\u00e1ndez for the position in the 6 October primary. Fern\u00e1ndez was winning that primary near the 4pm closing time, when the automated voting count began to show a pronounced increase in Castillo’s votes. The JCE allowed voting to continue for several more hours. Fern\u00e1ndez who had presided the PLD, then left the party. The automated voting machines would be outlawed for the presidential elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The People’s Force presidential candidate, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, said on TV that he respects his wife’s decision, who decided to stay in the PLD. “I did not want to leave the PLD, I was compelled by the situation,” he added in the Channel 5 interview. He left the party after 46 years of militancy. He said he and his wife share different visions, but he respects her decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When questioned about what this political difference implies in his married life, he recalled the words by the Colombian presidential candidate Belisario Antonio Betancourt in his campaign closing speech. “Throughout this campaign I have been told that I cannot not even get my wife’s vote, what they don’t see is that I am so democratic, so diverse, so open and so plural, that I go to bed with the opposition every night,” Betancourt had said back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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27 May 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez is running again for the Presidency, this time on the People’s Force ticket. His wife, Margarita Cede\u00f1o, who was his first lady, is now seeking a third term as Vice President for the ruling party, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). Cede\u00f1o is the running mate with Gonzalo Castillo, the PLD presidential … <\/p>\n

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