{"id":150467,"date":"2020-11-30T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=150467"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:38:35","slug":"most-dominicans-back-reducing-state-contributions-to-political-parties-and-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/11\/30\/most-dominicans-back-reducing-state-contributions-to-political-parties-and-legislators\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Dominicans back reducing state contributions to political parties and legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Congreso-Nacional-Hoy-e1606747071600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150514\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader&#8217;s proposal to cut in half the government allotment to political parties has the overwhelming support of the Dominican people, according to findings from the November 2020 Gallup-Hoy poll. A high 82.8% of those polled said they back the proposal to reduce by 50% taxpayer money assigned in the 2021 National Budget to political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those polled also favored eliminating the extra-budgetary allotments to the senators and deputies so these could at their discretion carry out social work in their communities. 74% of the adults consulted for the 11-16 November 2020 poll approve the elimination of the fund for senators popularly known as &#8220;el barrilito&#8221; and the &#8220;el cofrecito&#8221; fund of deputies. The motion does not have the support of the senators nor the deputies. In the Senate, only Eduardo Estrella (DxC-Santiago), Antonio Taveras (PRM-Santo Domingo) and Faride Raf\u00fal (PRM-National District) have declined to receive the extra funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1,200 Dominicans eligible to vote were polled by Gallup from 11-16 November 2020. The poll has a margin of error of 2.8%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/gallup-hoy-mayoria-favorece-que-se-reduzcan-recursos-a-partidos-y-se-eliminen-barrilito-y-cofrecito\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 November 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader&#8217;s proposal to cut in half the government allotment to political parties has the overwhelming support of the Dominican people, according to findings from the November 2020 Gallup-Hoy poll. A high 82.8% of those polled said they back the proposal to reduce by 50% taxpayer money assigned in the 2021 National Budget to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/11\/30\/most-dominicans-back-reducing-state-contributions-to-political-parties-and-legislators\/\" 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\/150467"}],"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=150467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150515,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150467\/revisions\/150515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}