The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD)the main opposition in the Dominican Republic, will choose tomorrow in one referendum to your candidate for the presidential elections of May 2024.
In this process, the former vice president of the country Margarita Cedeño (2012-2020) and the mayor of Santiago (second city in the country) and former president of the Deputies Abel Martínez, who start as favorites, will be measured, according to the polls.
The former attorney general and former senator Francisco Domínguez Brito, the former deputy Karen Ricardo and the former Minister of Labor Maritza Hernández will also attend.
The results are expected to be known the same Sunday, according to the organizers of the referendum, in which all PLD members will be able to vote, as well as voters who are not registered in any political organization.
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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) warned that it is not binding, but the candidates agreed that the one who wins will be the presidential candidate of the PLD, a party that governed the country uninterruptedly between 2004 and 2020.
The PLD was divided in October 2019 after the former president and then president of the organization Leonel Fernández (1996-2000, 2004-2008 and 2008-2012), rejected the results of the convention of that formation in which the former Minister of Gonzalo Castillo Public Works beat him by a margin of less than 1%.
Fernández left the PLD and formed the People’s Force, coming in third place in the 2020 presidential elections, while Castillo, supported by then-President Danilo Medina (2012-2020), came in second.
Fernández, ex-husband of Margarita Cedeño, is emerging as a candidate for the 2024 elections, in which the current president, Luis Abinader, of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), is expected to run again, although on several occasions he has said that he will not has decided on it
