{"id":204462,"date":"2023-10-02T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=204462"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:03:18","slug":"francisco-pena-will-be-prm-candidate-for-santo-domingo-west-dio-astacio-leads-in-santo-domingo-east-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/02\/francisco-pena-will-be-prm-candidate-for-santo-domingo-west-dio-astacio-leads-in-santo-domingo-east-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Pe\u00f1a will be PRM candidate for Santo Domingo West; Dio Astacio leads in Santo Domingo East vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Francisco-Pen\u0303a-y-Dio-Astacio-Hoy-1024x289.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204491\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Francisco-Pen\u0303a-y-Dio-Astacio-Hoy-1024x289.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Francisco-Pen\u0303a-y-Dio-Astacio-Hoy-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Francisco-Pen\u0303a-y-Dio-Astacio-Hoy-768x217.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Francisco-Pen\u0303a-y-Dio-Astacio-Hoy-1536x433.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Francisco-Pen\u0303a-y-Dio-Astacio-Hoy-2048x578.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Francisco Pe\u00f1a won the right to compete for the ruling party in the 16 February 2024 municipal elections. He competed against incumbent mayor Jose Andujar. Pe\u00f1a received 11,900 votes to Andujar\u2019s 9,515. Pre-candidate El\u00edas B\u00e1ez was third with 7,365 votes and Jose Moya fourth with 4,957 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Santo Domingo East, mayor Manuel Jimenez was the least voted. His contender Christian pastor Dio Astacio has a comfortable lead as the votes are counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his remarks on the primary, Astacio highlighted the work of his predecessor, Manuel Jimenez, who was the worst performer in the election. \u201cI value the transparency, honesty and the work carried out by our brother Manuel and I know that some things did not work out well for him, but he is an honest man and an untiring worker,\u201d said the Christian pastor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, of the 268,462 persons eligible to vote in the primary, 37,000 valid votes were registered. Dio Astacio received 35% of the vote, his contenders Adan Peguero 22.94% and Bertico Santana 22.75%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20231002\/pena-volvera-contender-cabildo-santo-domingo-oeste_775583.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/2023\/10\/01\/prm-francisco-pena-gana-candidatura-de-la-alcaldia-de-sdo\/2478104\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/primarias-prm-dio-astacio-y-francisco-pena-pican-delante-para-ganar-candidaturas\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 October 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Pe\u00f1a won the right to compete for the ruling party in the 16 February 2024 municipal elections. He competed against incumbent mayor Jose Andujar. Pe\u00f1a received 11,900 votes to Andujar\u2019s 9,515. Pre-candidate El\u00edas B\u00e1ez was third with 7,365 votes and Jose Moya fourth with 4,957 votes. In Santo Domingo East, mayor Manuel Jimenez was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/02\/francisco-pena-will-be-prm-candidate-for-santo-domingo-west-dio-astacio-leads-in-santo-domingo-east-vote\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462"}],"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=204462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204492,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462\/revisions\/204492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}