{"id":145497,"date":"2020-08-17T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=145497"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:47:25","slug":"two-more-senators-split-from-pld-to-join-former-president-leonel-fernandezs-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/08\/17\/two-more-senators-split-from-pld-to-join-former-president-leonel-fernandezs-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more senators split from PLD to join former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Senators from the People’s Force \/ Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The People\u2019s Force (FP) is getting two more senators. At the change of government, Dionis S\u00e1nchez and Felix Bautista confirmed they will be switching to the People\u2019s Force bloc of senators. Dionis S\u00e1nchez was elected the voice of the People\u2019s Force in government. He won the senate seat for the province of Pedernales on the PLD ticket and now is switching political parties. Pedernales is the Dominican province with the smallest population, at around 33,439 inhabitants<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felix Bautista is an infamous former director of the corruption-tainted Supervisory Office of Public Works under former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez. Transparency International has named Bautista one of the most corrupt persons in the world. In the 2020 congressional election, Bautista was reelected senator for San Juan de la Maguana. In the primary, he had defeated the sister of former President Danilo Medina in the PLD primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With S\u00e1nchez and Bautista migrating to the People\u2019s Force, the last-minute political party, formed when former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez split from the PLD arguing fraud in the party primary in October, will now be the largest opposition party bloc in the Senate. This means it will be the FP, and not the PLD, that will have a seat in the National Council of the Magistracy. The National Council of the Magistracy chooses the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Constitutional Court (TC) and Superior Electoral Court (TSE) judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diario Libre reported on Monday, 17 August that in addition five deputies of the PLD were also migrating to the FP. These are Tob\u00edas Crespo, Aquilino Serrata, Enriqueta Rojas, Carlos Garc\u00eda and Charlene Can\u00e1an. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FP had joined forces with the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in opposing the attempts by former President Danilo Medina to reform the Constitution a second consecutive time. In the 2020 general elections, the FP allied with the PRM to pool forces on select candidacies to defeat the PLD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chamber of Deputies now presided by Alfredo Pacheco and the Senate, presided by Eduardo Estrella, announced sessions would be on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with Mondays and Fridays for the meeting of commissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The People\u2019s Force (FP) is getting two more senators. At the change of government, Dionis S\u00e1nchez and Felix Bautista confirmed they will be switching to the People\u2019s Force bloc of senators. Dionis S\u00e1nchez was elected the voice of the People\u2019s Force in government. He won the senate seat for the province of Pedernales on the … <\/p>\n

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