{"id":165350,"date":"2021-09-27T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=165350"},"modified":"2021-09-27T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:50:35","slug":"former-vice-president-margarita-cedeno-announces-she-seeks-presidency-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/former-vice-president-margarita-cedeno-announces-she-seeks-presidency-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Vice President Margarita Cede\u00f1o announces she seeks Presidency in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Margarita-Cedeno-Candidata-Presidencial-Twitter.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Margarita-Cedeno-Candidata-Presidencial-Twitter.png 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Margarita-Cedeno-Candidata-Presidencial-Twitter-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>56-year old Margarita Cede\u00f1o, who was First Lady for eight years (Leonel Fernandez 2004-2012) and Vice President with former President Danilo Medina (2012-2020), has announced she will seek the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) nomination in 2024. Others of the PLD to announce their aspirations are Abel Mart\u00ednez, a former president of the Chamber of Deputies and two-term mayor of Santiago, and former Santiago senator and Attorney General Francisco Dom\u00ednguez Brito.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cede\u00f1o campaigned criticizing the deteriorating of public services, the improvisation and lack of jobs and the lack of opportunities for young people in the country. She said she would serve with efficiency and solidarity. Cede\u00f1o managed billionaire budgets for welfare as First Lady and Vice President. She is a graduate of the state UASD law school with postgraduate studies abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cede\u00f1o no longer uses the traditional \u201cde Fernandez.\u201d The couple, nevertheless, has never formally announced they are divorced. In the 2020 presidential election campaign, Cede\u00f1o competed against Leonel Fernandez after being chosen running mate to then PLD presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo. Fernandez ran for the newly created People\u2019s Force after disputing the legality of the electoral primary of the PLD that chose Castillo as presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/los-motivos-de-margarita-cedeno-para-ir-tras-la-candidatura-presidencial-del-pld-DK28998830\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margarita_Cede%C3%B1o\">Wikipedia<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>56-year old Margarita Cede\u00f1o, who was First Lady for eight years (Leonel Fernandez 2004-2012) and Vice President with former President Danilo Medina (2012-2020), has announced she will seek the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) nomination in 2024. Others of the PLD to announce their aspirations are Abel Mart\u00ednez, a former president of the Chamber of Deputies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/former-vice-president-margarita-cedeno-announces-she-seeks-presidency-in-2024\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165350"}],"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=165350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165390,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165350\/revisions\/165390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}