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Caribbean & Central America - November 2018
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Political parties’ law promulgated
President Danilo Medina has promulgated the Dominican Republic’s (DR) first ever political parties’ law (ley 33-18) after 15 years of debate. Long a demand of civil-society groups and the private sector, the law for the first time regulates the complete process surrounding the formation, structuring, and procedures relating to political groups, movements, and parties. However, the initiative has proven divisive within the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), serving to once again expose rifts between the faction led by President Medina and his main rival and predecessor, former president Leonel Fernández (1996-2000; 2004-2012).
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