Santo Domingo.-The opposition Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) declared this Saturday that the Current political reality forces parties to choose their candidates to elective positions before 2027, with a view to the 2028 elections.
The organization specified that “the current reality requires a certain flexibility in the selection of candidates for candidacy of those who will compete in the 2028 elections.”
He claimed his right to choose his candidates for candidacy, within the framework of current legislation.
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Melanio Paredes and Rubén Bicharamembers of the PLD Political Committee, made the statement through a press release, without going into further details.
The two leaders thus responded to the ruling TSE/0011/2025, of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), to which the president of that high court referred, Ygnacio Pascual Camachoin his accountability last Thursday, the 15th of this month.
The ruling in question indicates that “although party organizations have the right to design strategies for future electoral processes and carry out institutional propaganda, they cannot advance the electoral stages.”
In that sense, the document established that the parties cannot position a candidate for pre-candidacy or articulate their candidacy in advance, as this collides with equity within the organization and breaks internal democracy.
Melanio Paredes
On the subject, Paredes stated that “what the Central Electoral Board (JCE), empowered to make administrative decisions, and the TSE itself must do is understand that reality requires us to be more flexible,” he noted.
He considered that the PLD and the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) “have to, in some way, show their candidates. And they will have to do it this year.”
He insisted “that the current political reality is forcing political parties to choose their candidates before 2027.”
Ruben Bichara
“As a law-abiding party, the PLD will never infringe the electoral regulations established in the country, although we clarify that political parties have the internal power to make their decisions in relation to organizing their activities and choosing their candidate candidates to be made official within the period indicated by the Law.”
The parties are empowered to carry out their internal processes, he said.
