{"id":211827,"date":"2024-02-26T07:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=211827"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T13:00:37","slug":"17-of-158-mayors-will-be-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/26\/17-of-158-mayors-will-be-women\/","title":{"rendered":"17 of 158 mayors will be women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mujeres-Alcanzan-42-por-ciento-puestos-municipales-Diario-Libre-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211924\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mujeres-Alcanzan-42-por-ciento-puestos-municipales-Diario-Libre-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mujeres-Alcanzan-42-por-ciento-puestos-municipales-Diario-Libre-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mujeres-Alcanzan-42-por-ciento-puestos-municipales-Diario-Libre-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mujeres-Alcanzan-42-por-ciento-puestos-municipales-Diario-Libre.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Very few women were elected mayor in the 18 February 2024 municipal election. Of the country\u2019s 158 mayors that will swear in for the four-year term that starts on 24 April 2024, only 17 will be women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the women elected for mayor are:<br>National District: Carolina Mejia (daughter of former President Hipolito Mejia)<br>Santo Domingo North: Betty Ger\u00f3nimo (wife of former mayor of Santo Domingo North, Francisco Pe\u00f1a). Higuey: Karina Aristy (daughter of former president of the Dominican Municipal League and long-time La Altagracia province, the late senator Amable Aristy).<br>Las Galeras, Samana: Ana Reyes won with 80% of the vote<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, reports are that the number of women that will be in director positions in the municipalities has increased by 10% in city councilor positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20240222\/hay-avance-escogencia-mujeres-alcaldesas-17-electas-total-158-municipios_796708.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/2024\/02\/25\/aumenta-representacion-de-mujeres-en-elecciones-municipales\/2624359\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/2024\/02\/25\/4284--de-mujeres-fueron-electas-en-elecciones-municipales\/2624675\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 February 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very few women were elected mayor in the 18 February 2024 municipal election. Of the country\u2019s 158 mayors that will swear in for the four-year term that starts on 24 April 2024, only 17 will be women. Among the women elected for mayor are:National District: Carolina Mejia (daughter of former President Hipolito Mejia)Santo Domingo North: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/26\/17-of-158-mayors-will-be-women\/\" 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":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211827"}],"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=211827"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211926,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211827\/revisions\/211926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}