{"id":184388,"date":"2022-08-17T07:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=184388"},"modified":"2022-08-17T08:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:20:40","slug":"alfredo-pacheco-and-eduardo-estrella-to-keep-at-the-helm-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/17\/alfredo-pacheco-and-eduardo-estrella-to-keep-at-the-helm-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Pacheco and Eduardo Estrella to keep at the helm of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Congreso-edificio-Biblioteca-Virtual-Miguel-de-Cervantes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148367\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Congreso-edificio-Biblioteca-Virtual-Miguel-de-Cervantes.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Congreso-edificio-Biblioteca-Virtual-Miguel-de-Cervantes-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Legislators voted in favor of keeping Alfredo Pacheco (PRM-National District) as president of the Chamber of Deputies and Eduardo Estrella (Dominicanos por el Cambio-Santiago) as president of the Senate for the next year. The ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) had the majority vote to decide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Liberation Party has positioned Juan Julio Campos as spokesperson. The People&#8217;s Force chose Omar Fern\u00e1ndez as the party spokesperson. The same ruling political party announced Julio Furcal, brother of controversial former Minister of Education Roberto Furcal, will continue as spokesman for the ruling party in the Chamber of Deputies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Senate, Franklin Romero will be spokesman for the PRM. The PLD is keeping Yv\u00e1n Lorenzo; and the Fuerza del Pueblo chose Dionis S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three political parties formed the Bloque Alternativo Progresista in the Chamber of Deputies to promote common commitments on various issues that impact Dominican society, they announced. The bloc is formed by deputies Pedro Mart\u00ednez, of Alianza Pa\u00eds; Aida Nilsa L\u00f3pez Reyna, of the Liberal Reformist Party; and Jos\u00e9 Horacio Rodr\u00edguez of Opci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica. Rodr\u00edguez was chosen as spokesperson for the new political bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/franklin-romero-y-julio-furcal-seran-voceros-del-prm-en-congreso\/\">Hoy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2022\/08\/16\/734571\/asi-estan-conformadas-las-camaras-legislativas-y-las-vocerias-de-los-bloques-de-los-partidos\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2022\/08\/16\/734575\/conforman-bloque-alternativo-progresista-en-la-camara-de-diputados-y-escogen-a-jose-horacio-de-vocero\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 August 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators voted in favor of keeping Alfredo Pacheco (PRM-National District) as president of the Chamber of Deputies and Eduardo Estrella (Dominicanos por el Cambio-Santiago) as president of the Senate for the next year. The ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) had the majority vote to decide. The Dominican Liberation Party has positioned Juan Julio Campos as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/17\/alfredo-pacheco-and-eduardo-estrella-to-keep-at-the-helm-of-congress\/\" 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":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184388"}],"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=184388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184435,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184388\/revisions\/184435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}