Gonzalo Castillo, Margarita Cedeño, Abel Martínez, Francisco Domínguez Brito, Maritza Hernández and Andrés Navarro are the ones who so far have aspirations to seek the presidential candidacy of the Dominican Liberation Party for the period 2024-2028.
This group announced by the general secretary of the PLD last Sunday has its history in public functions and some of them give signals that they would look for the Presidency of the Republic.
Abel Martínez
The current mayor of Sant Jaume is in his second consecutive term in the position to obtain almost 50% of the votes cast during the extraordinary municipal elections of March 15, 2020, and be one of the few to get a syndicate for the Dominican Liberation Party.
Martinez also comes in third place among the most voted during those in the recent election of the Political Committee held in early March. Although the Catalan Ombudsman has not made his aspirations public, in Santiago at the beginning of the year a billboard was placed saying that “whoever changes a city can change a country”, in a frank motivation to his aspirations. .
Margarita Cedeño
The former vice president of the Republic was the ballot partner of Danilo Medina, when he won the presidency in 2016 above 62% of the votes cast and also held the same position in 2012.
Cedeño also enjoyed wide popularity during her eight years as first lady and in the two governments of Leonel Fernández was responsible for managing the social policies of the state, also was in fifth place in the elections of last month’s Political Committee.
Although she has never officially announced it, the former official has always been singled out as a possible presidential candidate for the PLD. During the period of the internal pre-campaign of the pro-government party, it came to warn its fellow leaders of the PLD that it was necessary to find a third way for the two existing, that of Fernandez (who is no longer in the party) and that of former President Medina, meant “losing” while with her would be “win-win” and then disclosed that the Medina sector within the PLD proposed to her husband, then president of the ‘PLD, to support Cedeño de Fernández as a unitary candidate, which was supposedly rejected by him.
Some argue that the level of acceptance declined after she accepted to be Gonzalo Castillo’s ballot companion.
Gonzalo Castillo
Castell was the person who defeated, by a narrow margin, Fernandez in the October 2019 primaries (which resulted in the departure of the former president after he alleged that there was an alleged fraud in automated voting equipment) and was highly valued during his seven-year tenure as Minister of Public Works and Communications.
However, the former presidential candidate was barely able to exceed 30% in the presidential election, was the protagonist of the “worst” electoral defeat of the PLD in recent history and was singled out on this occasion as the candidate. of the “danilato”.
The former official comes with the push to be the second most voted in the internal elections to determine the members of Political Committee.
Domínguez Brito
The former environment minister has just been the most voted in the political committee elections, but he has not been elected on any of the occasions in which he has competed to win this seat in the pro-government party.
The most backward
A little behind these aspirants is the former Minister of Education, Andreu Navarro, who also ran in the October 2019 primaries before retiring from the contest and joining in supporting the pre-candidacy. by Gonzalo Castillo.
The former chancellor competed during the last internal congress for the position of general secretary of the party, being in third place behind Mariotti and the former vice president of the Dominican Corporation of State Electric Enterprises (CDEEE), Rubén Bichara.
Among the contenders was also appointed (by Mariotti) the former Minister of Interior and Police, Carlos Amarante Baret, who was contained equally in past primaries before retiring to support Gonzalo Castillo.
Amarante Baret expressed on his Twitter account that he has not yet made the announcement officially because “it is too early to put the country in politics.”
Maritza Hernandez was the only female to compete in the October 6 primaries nearly two years ago, and at that time alleged that she was murdered by the “NATO” (a group that allegedly operates within the ‘Political Committee and is the one who makes the decisions).
Hernández is a member of the PLD’s political committee and was Minister of Labor in 2016 but outside of that he has not gained much political traction.
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They need approval from the central committee
In offering the list, the general secretary of the PLD said that it was not “final”, as these must be approved by the central committee of the pro-government party.
They must meet Danilo
Several months ago, the secretary of the PLD assured that those who aspire to the presidential pre-candidacy will have to meet with him and the president of the party, Danilo Medina.
“The interested parties will have to meet with the party president and the general secretary, so the guidelines are drawn up, with the aim of not contradicting the process of transformation and reorganization to choose the new middle authorities and of the party ‘s bases, “Mariotti said in mid – March.