President Danilo Medina delivered a live broadcast to the nation on 17 June to announce that he will seek re-election in May 2016. The lightning speed with which the bicameral legislative assembly amended the constitution to allow Medina to run again is testament to the predominance of the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) and Medina’s popularity. But it has also realigned Dominican politics as the main opposition Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) supported not just the constitutional change but also Medina’s re-election bid. This leaves a PRD splinter group as the only viable opposition. Absent from Medina’s address was mention of the fact that 17 June was the deadline to register for the implementation of the controversial immigrant regularisation programme which could lead to the deportation of thousands of people to Haiti.End of preview - This article contains approximately 685 words.
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