{"id":47809,"date":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/and-here-they-go\/"},"modified":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","slug":"and-here-they-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/05\/27\/and-here-they-go\/","title":{"rendered":"And here they go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partido Revolucionario Dominicano presidential hopefuls Rafael Suberv&iacute;  Bonilla (at present Mayor of Santo Domingo and congressman for Barahona  as of August 1998) and Hip&oacute;lito Mejia (a former minister of agriculture,  today farm produce exporter) separately announced their aspirations to  the PRD presidential candidate nomination for the year 2000 election. Earlier,  in an interview with the List&iacute;n Diario yesterday, the party&#8217;s secretary  general, Hatuey de Camps did not discard he would vie for the presidential  candidacy of the party.   Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a said if he is elected presidential candidate  he would invite Santo Domingo senator Milagros Ort&iacute;z Bosch to be  his vice presidential candidate. Mej&iacute;a called out to PRD party members  that will be taking over city governments from PRSC militants to treat  these with respect to leave doors open for an alliance with that party  for the presidential elections in year 2,000. As per the reformed Constitution,  50%+1 of the vote is needed to win the elections, thus alliances are important.  Milagros Ortiz Bosch has said that while it is not her personal desire  to run for the presidency, she would if the people voted in her favor.  She has emphasized that the party must define the rules for the electing  of the presidential candidate prior to the launching of any candidacies.  The politicians spoke at a mass held in the Cathedral of Santiago in  the memory of Dr. Jose Francisco Pe&ntilde;a Gomez, leader of the PRD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partido Revolucionario Dominicano presidential hopefuls Rafael Suberv&iacute; Bonilla (at present Mayor of Santo Domingo and congressman for Barahona as of August 1998) and Hip&oacute;lito Mejia (a former minister of agriculture, today farm produce exporter) separately announced their aspirations to the PRD presidential candidate nomination for the year 2000 election. Earlier, in an interview with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/05\/27\/and-here-they-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47809"}],"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=47809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}