The Modern Revolutionary Parties (PRM) and the Dominican Liberation (PLD) have been designated as the only two majority parties, according to Central Electoral Committee (JCE) regulation 01-2021 published last night.
While the People’s Force remained as a minority party reaching 4.54%, in combination with the votes obtained at the two electoral levels that were contested in the last elections of July 5, presidential and congressional
According to this criterion, PRM was on the first place with 44.95%, and PLD on the second place with 32.30%, for which JCE designated them as the only two majority parties.
The decision was made after a plenary session of the institution, chaired by its president, Román Jáquez Liranzo, organized yesterday, and which lasted more than five hours.
Resource distribution
According to Law 33-18 on political parties, groups and movements, 80% of the resources allocated by the state to be distributed among political parties will be redistributed equally between PRM and PLD, as they were the only ones that exceeded 5 % of valid votes cast in elections.
According to this resolution, the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) party, led by former President Leonel Fernández, reached only 4.54, and the Dominican Revolutionary Parties (PRD), 3.57%; Christian Social Reformist (PRSC), 2.96%; Alianza País (Alpaís), 1.37%, and Dominicanos por el Cambio (DXC), 1.04%, so that they will receive in equal parts 12% of the allocated resources, remaining as minority parties.
The remaining 8% of the resources will be distributed among the 19 parties registered in the JCE, which received less than 1% of the valid votes cast in those last two elections.
Number of votes
The provision of the JCE establishes that the PRM obtained 1,998,407 votes at presidential level, 1,768,588 votes at senatorial level and 1,636,599 votes at the level of deputies, for a valid amount of votes of 5,403,594 and a percentage of 44.95%.
While the PLD obtained 1,352,842 votes at the presidential level; 1,267,168 votes at senatorial level and 1,262,971 at deputy level, for an amount of 3,882,981 and a percentage of 32.30%.
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The Force of the People.
FP obtained 233,538 votes at the presidential level; 141,836 at senatorial level and 171,376 votes at deputy level, for a sum of 546,750 votes and a percentage of 4.54%.
PRD AND PRSC.
The PRD obtained only 97,655 votes at the presidential level, and its total number of votes was 430,282, for a percentage of 3.57%, while the PRSC obtained 73,918 votes at the presidential level and an amount of 356,292, 2.96 %.
Other parties.
Alianza País obtained 39,458 votes at the presidential level and a sum of 165,670 votes, for 1.37%, and DXC, 31,511 and an amount of 125,146, for 1.04%.