Judith Pena | January 27, 2023
The National Executive Committee (CEN) of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) informed the Electoral Tribunal of its decision to reserve 144 popularly elected posts to make them available to future alliances.
The CEN indicated that there will be 33 positions for mayors, 52 for deputies and 59 for representatives who will not be submitted to primaries, next June 11, in justification of future political alliances.
They indicated that article 355 of the Electoral Code regulated by articles 96; 97 of Decree 29 of May 30, 2022 that calls for the General Election of May 5, 2024 and approves its regulations regulates the exclusion or reservations of positions of popular election to agree alliances with other political parties.
According to the norm, the parties can reserve up to 40% of the positions that must go to primaries applicable to the applications for deputies, mayor and corregimiento representatives.
With this formal announcement, the PRD revealed its intentions to make political alliances in different single-member and multi-member circuits for the next general elections in 2024, since the vacant positions are strategically distributed in different parts of the country.
“If the alliance does not materialize, the candidates for the popular election positions that were excluded from the Primaries will be chosen by the Corregimientos Directives of the Party that make up the respective constituency, as provided in Article 208 of the Statute,” they specified.
