Santo Domingo, RD.
The presidential aspirations of the three most voted people in the recent elections of the political committee of the Dominican Liberation Party, before the 2024 elections, were underlined.
The most voted candidate was Francisco Domínguez Brito, who was already a presidential candidate, although he did not win the nomination of his party; Gonzalo Castillo took second place and was the PLD candidate in the 2020 elections, where the purple party was defeated.
Abel Martínez Durán is the mayor of Santiago and, although he did not make public his aspirations for the presidency of the Republic, the people close to the mayor confirmed that he is working on a presidential project.
In fact, a billboard was posted in Santiago saying that “anyone who changes a city can change a country,” with a sincere motivation for their aspirations.
In the fourth electoral position, Cristina Lizardo was elected, who was a senator of the province of Santo Domingo and lost her place to Antonio Taveras and the Modern Revolutionary Party.
Lizardo comes from the position of chairman of the congress coordination committee José Joaquin Bidó Medina.
Then followed Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, who was vice president of the Republic for eight years in the administrations of Danilo Medina.
Cedeño has always commented on his interest in calling for the purple party to be nominated for the presidency, but has not yet made it public.
In the last election contest, she warned her fellow PLD leaders that it was necessary to look for a third way, because the two existing ones, that of her husband Leonel Fernández and that of President Medina, meant “lose-lose”.
She then confirmed that the Medina sector of the PLD had proposed to her husband, then president of the PLD, to support Cedeño de Fernández as a unitary candidate.
On this day, the PLD elected the members of its political committee for the next four years. In this process, the current members who ran for office were re-elected, with the sole exception of Eduardo Selman.