The presidents of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) have in common that all occupy public office, either through popular election or by decree.
After President Luis Abinader make it clear that he would not venture to modify the Constitution to continue leading the Executive, that generated the appetite of the internalism, which so far about nine have made it clear that they will seek the nomination with a view to the 2028 elections.
Nine PRM applicants seek nomination for 2028 presidential elections
They try to achieve the nomination for the 2028 elections: Vice President Raquel Peña, the mayor of the capital, Carolina Mejía; the Minister of Tourism, David Collad; the Customs director, Eduardo Sanz Lovatón; and Guido Gómez Mazara, president of the Board of Directors of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel).
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Also Tony Peña, director of the social cabinet; Wellington Arnaud, executive director of the National Institute of Potable and Sewer Water (INAPA); Víctor D´Aza, the president of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD) and Roberto Fulcar, minister without portfolio.
Of these, only two are not obliged to leave their positions when they start the campaign: Raquel Peña and Carolina Mejía, because both were elected through popular vote.
In the case of Víctor D´Aza, he was elected through a vote of mayors nationwide.
The others would leave the government train from 2026, date that the head of state had given the candidates to resign from their respective positions.
This weekend, Mejía said that his decision to aspire to the presidential nomination for his party does not interfere with his responsibilities as mayor of the National District.
Warning
On July 9, through social network X, Abinader warned that public officials who aspire to elective positions must renounce their positions, since political proselytism is not allowed by virtue of current laws.
“I am a tolerant and democratic president, but everything has a limit,” he said in his X account.
The president was forced to that publication, after the PM applicants threw themselves into the streets to campaign, despite the fact that the Central Electoral Board called its cessation.
