The General Secretariat, a position of maximum power that always generates appetites and conflicts in the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), hoy vuelve a star en su candelero interno, despuise de 20 aos bajo el reinado de Reinaldo Pared Pérez.
No leader competes more with the President of the PLD with influence and power than the Secretary General. Inklusief, is his vocation and ownership between other functions, the president of the party in case of final auspices, permanent incapacity for death, until there is a new one.
The PLD will now have the right to elect another secretary general, despite the fact that Pared Pérez renounced the cargo that came from 2001. On this occasion, a coalition was formed to derail the election of General Secretary José Tomás Pérez, during the VI Congress Professor Juan Bosch . También fue electo as president of the party exmandatario Leonel Fernández.
The murderous organization and the starry yellow acaraba lost the power in the 2000 elections with Danilo Medina as presidential candidate. When the PLD recovers the presidency of the Republic in 2004 with Fernandez as candidate, celebrated in 2005 the VII Congress Doctor Rafael Kasse Acta, and Pared Pérez was elected to the General Secretariat.
The PLD fully won the 2008 elections with the Fernández election, and the 2012 elections with Medina as a candidate. The party in full swing reunited until 2013, celebrating its VIII Congress with Commander Norge Botello. One of the principals’ decisions was confirmed in his capacity to the maximum direction, including his secretary general Pared Pérez.
The aspirants
To conclude a decade of convulsive internal accusations, that the PLD will have a deep division and the loss of power in the elections of the past year, the IX Congress José Joaquín Bidó Medina convened.
In addition to its renovation and other sensitive decisions, the Peledistas have been precise in electing a new president and a new general secretary, and Fernández’s resignation and other party form, while Pared Pérez is punished for his condition of health.
The presidency of the PLD has since been accused of taking serious action by President Medina, accusing him of corruption scandals involving numerous collaborators and officials of his governing body, including some of his suspects imprisoned by a prisoner.
In addition, for the General Secretariat he began to raise the numbers of aspirants such as the member of the Political Committee Rubén Jiménez Bichara, Member of the Medina and former President of the Dominican Federation of State Electric Companies (CDEE).
También also carried out an intense campaign by the Secretary General of Monte Plata, Charlie Mariotti, clerk of Medina, and with the insistence of the young Juan Ariel Jiménez, hijo of the influential founder of the PLD Félix Jiménez (Felucho), and exministro de Economía del governor of Medina.
On this occasion, the President, like the Secretary-General, will be elected by the Central Committee, which will be finalized on 14 February, with a registration register of 995 members.
A cube of pain
Since the founding of the PLD in 1973, following the reunion of Professor Juan Bosch of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), the General Secretariat was converted into a dollar for Juan Bosch, leading to conflicts, expulsions and surgeries around the world. sus incumbentes.
At its constitutive congress the designated organization of Antonio Abréu (Tonito) as its secretary general, the same rank as occupied by the PRD. Abréu formed part of the first political committee of the PLD integrated by Bosch, José Joaquín Bidó Medina, Rafael Alburquerque and Franklin Almeida.
Tonito Abreu was just about to join a group of leaders to form the Unidad Democrática (UD) party, in the middle of the I Narpier Congress, which was the first major internal crisis of the PLD. He reviewed the 1978 elections, in which he triumphed over the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD).
The PLD came to live in a similar situation in 1982, across the comics from the victorious Salvador Jorge Blanco and the PRD, which carried out the work and discipline methods. Bosch presented his remarks as president of the party creating a short panorama.
Alburquerque, who was the general secretary of the PLD and had been Bosch’s ballet partner in the presidential elections, was fired along with another group of conductors during the celebration of the II Nin Diplan Congress, appointed as general secretary of Lidio Cadet. Finally, Alburquerque created its own party, the Dominican People’s (PPD).
In the general secretariat of the PLD, Cadet was mantuvo until 1999, when he was killed by José Tomás Pérez (80% of the votes), in a contingent where he also aspired Pared Pérez and Ramón Ventura Camejo, in the middle of great tension. The management of José Tomás Pérez in front of the general secretariat lasted two years. His selection was published in the 2001 competition by Pared Pérez. However, he applied for the candidacy of Senator of the National District, leading to Alburquerque, Eduardo Selman and Franklin Almeida. Won in the 2002 elections to convert to the only senator who won the PLD.
As advised, the general secretaries of the PLD have been directly involved in the generation of major internal crises that have seen the organization in its mid-term existence. However, the position also served as a trampoline to aspire to the presidency of the Republic, although no one has posted this objective.
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Presidential candidates
The PLD alone has held four presidential candidates in its mid-term existence. Juan Bosch in cinco ocasiones (1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994); Leonel Fernández in three periods, all of them won (1996, 2004 and 2008); Danilo Medina, on three occasions: lost in 2000 and won in 2012 and 2016. By last Gonzalo Castillo, who was deported in 2020.