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Weekly Report - 7 May 2015 (WR-15-18)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Crunch time for re-election
Dominicans are no strangers to constitutional reform, especially when it involves amending articles referring to presidential re-election. It came as no great surprise then when 13 senators from the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), presented a bill to amend the constitution to allow President Danilo Medina to run for re-election this time next year. But this collides with the aspirations of the PLD’s most established caudillo, thrice former president Leonel Fernández (1996-2000; 2004-2008; 2008-2012), and has caused a rift within the PLD which the opposition is floundering to exploit.
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