The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) is engaged in an internal struggle that risks its institutional permanence beyond 2028, the year in which Dominicans will go to the polls again.
The political organization, founded by Professor Juan Bosch in 1973, is fighting a tough battle for survival amid resignations, expulsions and diatribes.
However, the purple party is developing its
For some, that entity completed its historical cycle, others, more optimistic, the congress would be an opportunity for the entity to “reemerge like the phoenix.”
In the last elections, the LDP It barely reached 10.39%, about 27% less than what was obtained in 2020, when it lost power by obtaining 37% against the Modern Revolutionary Party, which won the victory.
In recent days, a series of resignations of leaders of that organization have occurred, as well as the expulsion of Carlos Amarante Baret, accusing him of “sweeping” leaders with a view to forming another party.
Last Wednesday Domingo Contreras, former candidate for mayor of the National District for the Rescue Alliance and member of the PLD Political Committee, resigned citing disagreement.
Former deputy Carlos Amarante García did the same, as did José Antonio González, president of the municipal committee of Villa Isabela, Puerto Plata province and Wascar Gómez, in Santo Domingo Norte.
In addition, Wilton Juma, Vladimir Céspedes, Jairo Morillo and José Antonio Castillo González (Chelo), all in the northern zone.
CP
After the loss of power in 2020, the Political Committee, the main governing body of the PLD, made up of 45 members, eight members have resigned, some have left the organization, but others remain, such as José del Castillo Saviñón. , José Ramón Peralta and Ramón Ventura Camejo.
However, Rafael Paz and Julio César Valentín, Rafael Hidalgo, Víctor Suárez and Domingo Contreras resigned from the CP and the party.
Expulsion
In a video posted yesterday on social networks, Amarante Baret maintained that his dishonorable expulsion was a decision by Danilo Medina and not the party’s ethics commission.
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«I became an uncomfortable militant because I never accepted nor will I accept that, because a president appoints me to a public position, I must rent my mind, my soul, my conscience and my life, as if I were a servant of the people; Never that,” he said.
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Until the 2000s, the PLD was a cadre party, but in order to remain in power beyond 2004, the political entity opened itself to massification.
In addition to 1996 and 2004, he managed to win in 2008, 2012 and 2016, being at the time one of the electoral machines.
Danilo continues
Everything seems to indicate that the Central Committee will ratify Danilo Medina as its president, which would open a range of options. Initially Medina announced that he would not run for re-election, but as the days passed the scenario changed. Now Medina will face Francisco Domínguez Brito, a renowned leader of Santiago, for the presidency.
