In an interview with CNN en Espanol, Vice President Margarita Cedeno spoke out against any plans to change the 2010 Constitution to allow for consecutive presidential re-election. <\/p>\n
Former First Lady Margarita Cedeno is the wife of former President Leonel Fernandez. Fernandez has announced plans to seek the ruling PLD party’s presidential candidacy in the 2016 election. <\/p>\n
“We can not permit the Constitution to be subject to changes in an electoral time,” she said when interviewed by Ismael Cala on the Cala program broadcast by CNN en Espanol. <\/p>\n
Cedeno said that 2010 Constitution was the result of the broadest consensus of political and citizen participation that had come together in the Dominican Republic. “It is a Constitution of which we are proud as citizens, as a people and as a party,” she said. <\/p>\n
She clarified that the PLD is not against re-election. “What we do not back is the change the Constitution to foster re-election because we believe that the Constitution needs to be respected and strengthened.” <\/p>\n
A 19 April 2015 meeting of the PLD Political Committee, the party’s highest deliberative body, approved changing the Constitution in order to reinsert a one-time consecutive re-election that would enable President Danilo Medina to be the PLD candidate in the 2016 presidential election. The measure was opposed by members loyal to former President Leonel Fernandez. <\/p>\n
The PLD holds the majority in Congress, but still needs opposition votes to pass the reform, even if it succeeds in securing all the PLD votes. <\/p>\n
The 2010 Constitution included a motion that allowed former President Leonel Fernandez to run for office again. <\/p>\n
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In an interview with CNN en Espanol, Vice President Margarita Cedeno spoke out against any plans to change the 2010 Constitution to allow for consecutive presidential re-election. Former First Lady Margarita Cedeno is the wife of former President Leonel Fernandez. Fernandez has announced plans to seek the ruling PLD party’s presidential candidacy in the 2016 … <\/p>\n