{"id":205700,"date":"2023-10-25T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=205700"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:20:56","slug":"prd-chooses-miguel-vargas-maldonado-to-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/25\/prd-chooses-miguel-vargas-maldonado-to-run-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"PRD chooses Miguel Vargas Maldonado to run for President"},"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\/Miguel-Vargas-candidato-PRD-Mi-PRD-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205685\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miguel-Vargas-candidato-PRD-Mi-PRD-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miguel-Vargas-candidato-PRD-Mi-PRD-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miguel-Vargas-candidato-PRD-Mi-PRD-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miguel-Vargas-candidato-PRD-Mi-PRD.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) chose its president, Miguel Vargas Maldonado as the party&#8217;s presidential candidate in the 2024 election. The party announced it would officially proclaim the candidacy during a National Convention on 5 November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miguel Vargas Maldonado had been heading a would-be coalition of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), presided by former President Danilo Medina and the People\u2019s Force of former President Leonel Fernandez. Fernandez seeks to return to power in 2024; the PLD has named Santiago Mayor Abel Martinez its presidential candidate. Neither Medina nor Fernandez attended the announcement of the coalition by Vargas Maldonado in August 2023.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, the PRD had been an ally of the PLD, with Vargas Maldonado serving as Minister of Foreign Relations in the last government of Danilo Medina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PRD participated in the 2020 election as an ally with the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). The PRD contributed 88,147 votes or 2.41%, according to the final bulletin the Central Electoral Board issued on the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miprd.org\/prd-elige-a-miguel-vargas-como-candidato-presidencial-y-convoca-convencion-nacional\/\">PRD <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/forums\/threads\/pld-fp-and-prd-announce-joining-forces-to-oust-prm-from-government.407667\/\">DR1 News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 October 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) chose its president, Miguel Vargas Maldonado as the party&#8217;s presidential candidate in the 2024 election. The party announced it would officially proclaim the candidacy during a National Convention on 5 November 2023. Miguel Vargas Maldonado had been heading a would-be coalition of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), presided by former &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/25\/prd-chooses-miguel-vargas-maldonado-to-run-for-president\/\" 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\/205700"}],"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=205700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205747,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205700\/revisions\/205747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}