{"id":143164,"date":"2020-06-24T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=143164"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:17:13","slug":"leonel-fernandez-forecasts-a-run-off-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/24\/leonel-fernandez-forecasts-a-run-off-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez forecasts a run-off election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Leonel-Fernandez-El-Caribe-e1593026221824.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143193\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez doubts the Dominican presidential election will be taken in a first round. Gallup-Hoy poll forecasts Luis Abinader, of the opposition Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), will take the election with 53.5% compared to 35.5% of Gonzalo Castillo, running for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), and 8.6% the polls says Fernandez will get. Fernandez is a three-time President and long time president of the PLD. He split from the party, arguing that there was fraud in the party&#8217;s primary, and founded the People&#8217;s Force (FP) political party under which he is running for President again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez is extolling his political experience and says that when there are three political forces exercising a certain level of representation, none of these will get the 50% plus one of the votes needed to win the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Greenberg and Gallup polls in June forecast Abinader will take the election in a first round vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/06\/23\/leonel-donde-hay-tres-fuerzas-politicas-con-cierto-nivel-de-representacion-nadie-gana-en-primera-vuelta\/\">El Caribe <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2020\/06\/22\/abinader-ganaria-en-primera-vuelta-con-53-57-segun-encuesta-gallup-hoy\/\">N Digital <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 June 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez doubts the Dominican presidential election will be taken in a first round. Gallup-Hoy poll forecasts Luis Abinader, of the opposition Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), will take the election with 53.5% compared to 35.5% of Gonzalo Castillo, running for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), and 8.6% the polls says Fernandez will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/24\/leonel-fernandez-forecasts-a-run-off-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\/143164"}],"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=143164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143194,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143164\/revisions\/143194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}