Presidential election in the Dominican Republic 2016
The Dominican presidential election in 2016 took place on May 15, 2016. A total of 6.765 million Dominicans were called to cast their votes. Under the 1966 Constitution , the Dominican Republic is a presidential republic. The head of state and chief executive officer (head of government) is the president , who is directly elected for four years . Direct re-election was banned in the constitution in 1994, allowed again in 2003 (one-time direct re-election) and banned again in 2010. In 2015, the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), contrary to its previous policy, pushed through to allow immediate one-time re-election to allow re-election of the popular incumbent Danilo Medina . The supporters of the former President Leonel Fernández , who wanted to nominate him as a presidential candidate , initially resisted .
Eight candidates ran for election. According to surveys, incumbent Danilo Medina from the PLD was the favorite in the election campaign. His greatest challenger was Luis Abinader , who was a candidate for the office of Vice President in the 2012 elections, of the Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM). The PRM split off from the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) in 2014 , whereupon the latter joined the electoral alliance of the former opponent PLD. The remaining six candidates were given no chance of being elected.
The strong fragmentation was due to the break-up of the "Bloque Progresista" led by the PLD. The Alianza por la Democracia (APD), the Fuerza Nacional Progresista (APD), joined the Alianza por la Democracia (APD) because they were kept out of the government, failed to find a consensus with the PLD to nominate candidates for national or municipal deputies, or disagreed with the government. FNP), the Partido de Unidad Nacional (PUN), the Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata Cristiano (PQDC) and the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) from the bloc and ported their own candidates for the presidency. Only the Bloque Institucional Social Demócrata (BIS), the Unión Demócrata Cristiana (UDC), the Partido de los Trabajadores Dominicanos (PTD) and the Partido Liberal Reformista (PLR) remained in the block. In addition to the weighty PRD, other small parties also joined the electoral alliance of the PLD.
Before the election, the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) withdrew its candidate Federico Antún Batlle in favor of the electoral alliance with the PRM, the Partido Nacional de Voluntad Ciudadana (PNVC) his, Juan Cohen, in favor of the electoral alliance with the PLD.
As expected, the incumbent Medina won the absolute majority in the first ballot, which means that there was no run-off vote in a second ballot, which is provided for by the constitution in the event that none of the candidates achieve an absolute majority in the first ballot. Medina received 61.74% of the vote, while its main competitor Abinader only achieved around 35%. The PRD contributed 5.86% to the winning result. As in the previous term of office, the wife of former President Leonel Fernández, Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, was elected Vice President.
Election result
Result of the state election commission after counting all votes cast:
| space | candidate | Political party | Share of votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danilo Medina Sánchez | Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) | 61.74% |
| 2 | Luis Abinader Corona | Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) | 34.98% |
| 3 | Guillermo Moreno García | Alianza País (AlPaís) | 1.83% |
| 4th | Elias Wessin Chavez | Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata Cristiano (PQDC) | 0.44% |
| 5 | Pelegrín Castillo Semán | Fuerza Nacional Progresista (FNP) | 0.35% |
| 6th | Minou Tavarez Mirabal | Alianza por la Democracia (APD) | 0.35% |
| 7th | Hatuey De Camps | Partido Revolucionario Social Demócrata (PRSD) | 0.18% |
| 8th | Soraya Aquino Campos | Partido de Unidad Nacional (PUN) | 0.12% |
The turnout was 69.60% (in the Dominican Republic, voting is compulsory for voters under the age of 70 ; nevertheless, around 30% do not vote).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amalfi Eguren: Hoy es el Día de la Constitución. In: Listín Diario. November 6, 2010.
- ↑ Juan Eduardo Thomas: Las caras de la oposición a pocos meses de comicios. In: Listín Diario. January 6, 2016.
- ↑ Boletín Nacional Electoral No. 14 ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Junta Central Electoral (PDF; 50 kB). May 28, 2016.
