On February 22, 1941 in Gurabo, Santiago, the President of the Republic, Hipólito Mejía, who celebrated his 80th birthday.
The last national electoral contest in May took part in 2012, as a candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), which won 46.95% of the votes cast and then in a second place, coming from Danilo Medina and the Party of the Dominican Liberation (PLD).
Luego de allí, Mejía marches alongside a large faction of the PRD, captured by Luis Abinader and forms the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in September 2014.
Allí pierde the internal contest for the 2016 presidential candidacy of Luis Abinader, who will run his ballet company in 2012, and will not form the high leadership of the PRM that enters his first electoral contingent, with less than two years to go sido formados.
Through the results of these comics of 2016, the PRM is in the process of another internal process and has decided on its presidential candidate for the 2020 elections with primary elections only for those who have been elected to the party.
In this contingent, celebrating the 6th of October 2019, May be lost by a margin of more than 60% of Luis Abinader who is alzarya with the PRM candidacy and later alzaria with the presidency of the Republic.
Officials of his cabinet in the current government
Mejía quedó con cierta incidencia en la gubernamental gubernamental de Abinader. His varios are that found in the cabinet of Mejía’s management, which also forms part of the current governor.
Among them is the Minister of Defense, Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, who is the Chief of Staff of Ejercito and the Chief of Security of Mejía; the Coordinator of the Cabinet of Social Politicians, Francisco Antonio (Tony) Peña Guaba, former Secretary of State for Youth; the director of the Social Plan, Yadira Henríquez, who resigned as secretary (minister) of the Mujer.
No aspirations for 2024
A superstitious move named “H-24”, which apparently busts the political support in the city for the electoral contingent, hopes alerts that Mejía will seek the presidency in 2024. It was denied by the same president.
“In view of the persistence of divergent divergence in different information media of the country as well as the public rumor, consider the opportunity to clarify that he was not instructed or authorized by any director, sea in the country or in the foreign country, to promote my candidacy some cargo, including the presidency of the Republic for general elections “, said the political leader in a document sent to the press.
On the other hand, it is signaled that at the moment it is “empowered” to help the country in order to be able to overcome with “the hereditary crisis of the previous government”.
The 2000 elections
Mejía was the President of the Republic during the period 2000-2004 and in the second round he won 49.87% of the votes and won in one of the elections to Danilo Medina, candidate of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and Joaquín Balaguer candidate of the Christian Socialist Reform Party (PRSC).
Political life
Prior to becoming the mandate of the Republic, Mejía was appointed director of the Tabaco National Institute in 1965, the second tenure of State Secretary. In 1971, he was President of the National Association of Agricultural Professionals (ANPA).
In 1978, the Minister of Agriculture during the presidency of President Antonio Guzmán Fernández of the PRD, in a number of reporting periods, Mejía created programs for the agro-industry and approved incentives to promote the development of rural agriculture and suecnac.
Competition for the Santiago Senate in 1982, lost, and was the ballet company of José Francisco Peña Gómez, in the 1990 elections.
No one will celebrate their companions
Hipólito Mejía announced that he had made the decision, together with his family, not to celebrate his companion number 80, due to the Covid-19 pandemic that affected the country.
“On the occasion of the celebration of my eight years of life, the next day of the 22nd of this year, I would like to inform my friends and acquaintances that this time, debid the pandemic that affected us, my family and we decided not to celebrate, as has been the case, the discovery of open gates that are traditionally carried out in our hogar ”, the executor said in his message.
