President Danilo Medina secured re-election with a decisive victory over his principal rival Luis Abinader on 15 May. Medina’s triumph means that when he completes his next term in 2020 the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) will have been in power for the longest continuous stretch of any other political party since the fall of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in 1961. Doubt still surrounds the outcome of the concurrent congressional and municipal elections, due to a slow count. The PLD will retain a large majority in the 32-seat senate but Abinader’s Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) will be hoping to reduce the size of its majority in the 190-seat chamber of deputies.End of preview - This article contains approximately 635 words.
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