The three heads of the 2024 elections: a president and two former presidents. The first with the possibility of running again, the second struggling to return to power for the fourth time, and the third at the crossroads of an eroded party that needs to reposition itself.
Those three political leaders, Luis Abinader, Leonel Fernandez and Danilo Medinaface three challenges, respectively: that the PRM achieve a second consecutive term, that the People’s Force grow in such a way that it can become an option for power, and that the PLD recovers the empathy lost in broad sectors of society due to its disputed departure from power.
Although Abinader is not the president of the PRM, embodying the first magistracy of the State makes him a commitment, in front of his party, to carry out a government administration that meets the expectations of the majority, so that 2024 is a year of continuous victory, and not of defeat.
Nothing prevents you from reapplying for a second term, and although he prefers to play the doubt with the language of silence, his constant public appearances and the defensive strategy of the Government even for minor criticism, leave little uncertainty about his reelection intention.
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Abinader won the 2020 presidential elections in the first round, obtaining the 52.52% of the votesthereby banishing 16 years of consecutive government by the PLD, whose candidate, Gonzalo Castillo, won the 37.46% of the votes.
As for former President Fernández, his task will be more titanic, since he has to build a party structure that goes beyond the threshold of the minority, and that allows him to make such a quantitative leap that he left behind his last electoral result: 5.69% of the votes obtained in the 2020 presidential elections.
The former president created the People’s Force after his resignation from the PLD, a party that he left due to the continuing wishes of the faction represented by former President Medina, who also chairs the political organization.
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Medina carries a heavy burden: to rebuild the PLD at a time when four cases of alleged public corruption are known, in which three of his brothers and close collaborators are involved.
After his departure from power, former President Medina has remained practically absent from public activities, but next June he starts with an agenda of meetings throughout the country in order to inject courage into the troops, and incidentally stop the escape of militants. that fit in the People’s Force and in the PRM.
