Margarita Cedeno She assures that she is confident in God and in the Dominican people regarding the results that would give her as the winner of the sympathy consultation that the Dominican Liberation Party will carry out (PLD), to elect the presidential candidate from among six of its members.
With a pact of commitment and support, Cedeño will face five of his colleagues in a consultation whose sole purpose is to see who among them is the people’s favorite.
attributed to “bad government” who heads the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), the reasons that have prompted her to take a new step in her political career to go after the presidential candidacy.
She defined herself as a faithful defender of the work carried out by her party during the last 16 years and in which she highlights having reduced the general and extreme poverty that the Dominican Republic had.
“I feel that those advances that we were able to achieve as vice president and as a government alongside Danilo Medina are being totally reversed,” he explained.
defined as “unlivable” the situation that the country is going through since, in his opinion, citizen insecurity is governing where “the narco is permeating and spreading its scourges in all sectors, including narco-politics.”
For Margarita, being the first woman to be president of the Dominican Republic would mean “breaking glass ceilings” with which women can be given more space and continue to climb achievements.
The former vice president affirms that since 2005 and to date she has come out in the polls with a very high favorability among the three most prominent public figures in politics and that in both 2012 and 2016 the people also wanted her as presidential candidate.
“In 2020, not to mention; yes, it was almost there, if it could have been decreed, if the people had been able to make a decree, then he would have told you that Margarita was the president,” recognized the political leader.
He defined his candidacy as one full of hope, love, passion with which he will win the PLD consultation and the 2024 elections in the first round.
“The Dominican people are prepared to have a woman as president, I see it in the streets and the demonstrations we have”Cedeno said.
She said that as president Margarita would offer much more and better than what she did when she was vice president, she stressed that in her role at the head of the country she would contribute to the construction of a better Dominican Republic where there are more entrepreneurs, with more values and where children are not outside of schools.
She also expressed that it would provide a better and higher quality health service and that women would have more opportunities and a space to continue advancing in their well-being.
According to what was pointed out by the member of the Political Committee of the PLD His government plans include as objectives the reduction of poverty to its minimum expression, productivity, innovation, technology, improvements in human capital, public, social and macroeconomic policies.
Regarding the remarks to members of the PLD And if those attacks have already been overcome Margarita Cedeno states that the “The picture is becoming clearer and it is always easier to fish in troubled rivers”.
“The river is clearing up and I think it was more of a media spectacle, in any case, the truth will come out and what if we have to understand that the great work that the PLD government did is not going to be overshadowed because there are three or four cases of people, including members who are not leaders of our party”.
Leonel and Margarita in the streets
The also former first lady of the Republic recognized that the next electoral contest will be a competition “very cute” since it will have two tall contenders.
Regarding what the scenario would be like facing Leonel Fernández in a presidential race, Margarita explained that it would be two opposing parties competing for the judiciary.
He said that in the case PLD It is the largest party in the Dominican Republic, with a more solid structure and with roots at the level of all localities and majority political representation.
Everyone with their candidate except the PLD
He stated that all the other parties had their chosen presidential candidate except the PLD for which they launched to carry out the consultation.
He stated that Luis Abinader was for the PRM, Miguel Vargas for the PRD and that, in the case of the People’s Force, although “Although former partner Leonel has not said what he is going to do, but apparently he will be as long as his party’s candidate is created and formed.”
A party with an alliance vocation
He assured that the PLD It is an alliance party, which is why it does not rule out that in 2024 there may be an alliance with the People’s Force or any other party to remove the PRM from power.
“So yes, we are willing, of course, willing to make these alliances with the People’s Force, with our green cousins, they will come here since their hearts are here and they know that mom is here too.”
The former official affirmed that she has never put her personal or individual interests above the organization and the collective, since the most important thing is the Dominican people and that it is this country where “He wants to raise his grandchildren.”
“What I want is to work for the people. First is the time of the woman and second is the time of Margarita.”
A more youthful stage
When talking to Diario Libre Cedeño, she affirmed that she is a lover of music and dance and that this has been the reason why she has been seen in a more jovial way in her aspirations to be the presidential candidate of the PLD
“I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I’m single and well, I have to dance and sing, I have to do something”he expressed.
