{"id":65999,"date":"2015-04-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/fernandez-calls-for-unity-and-political-shows-of-strength\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T01:43:56","slug":"fernandez-calls-for-unity-and-political-shows-of-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/04\/13\/fernandez-calls-for-unity-and-political-shows-of-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandez calls for unity and political shows of strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Former President Leonel Fernandez engaged in a show of strength by filling the Palacio de los Deportes in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo yesterday, Sunday, 12 April 2015. The three-time President said that the event was not aimed at creating factions within the party or to exclude anyone, but to guarantee its unity. <\/p>\n<p> At present, factions within the Medina administration are seeking the support of party members to get the PLD-majority Congress to pass a change in the 2010 Constitution to authorize President Danilo Medina to run for re-election. <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, former President Leonel Fernandez has announced his aspirations to the PLD candidacy in the May 2016 election. <\/p>\n<p> The ruling party&#8217;s influential political committee is set to meet on 19 April 2015, reportedly to decide on the issue of re-election. <\/p>\n<p> During the event, deputy Ruben Maldonado announced the participation of 16 (of 32) senators and 61 (of 190) Congressional deputies in the Fernandez political campaign. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zoUjJ5Avln\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2015\/04\/13\/leonel-fernandez-resalta-acto-unidad-del-pld\/\">Leonel: el triunfo del PLD est\u00e1 sellado<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#171;Leonel: el triunfo del PLD est\u00e1 sellado&#187; &#8212; Peri\u00f3dico El Caribe - Mereces verdaderas respuestas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2015\/04\/13\/leonel-fernandez-resalta-acto-unidad-del-pld\/embed\/#?secret=zoUjJ5Avln\" data-secret=\"zoUjJ5Avln\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Leonel Fernandez engaged in a show of strength by filling the Palacio de los Deportes in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo yesterday, Sunday, 12 April 2015. The three-time President said that the event was not aimed at creating factions within the party or to exclude anyone, but to guarantee &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/04\/13\/fernandez-calls-for-unity-and-political-shows-of-strength\/\" 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":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999"}],"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=65999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}