Dominican Luis Abinader leads change in continental cycle

“Abinader is the strongest man, the man on top.” Young Fernando Sosa, Jonas Gutierrez and Victor Tolentino They argue at the door of the election center In Autonomous University of Santo Domingo In the purest Dominican style. They laugh because a “skilled” person who was just voted off wants to get some money to go to his home in Bonao, but they know it is a lie.

It is afternoon in the Dominican capital and almost everyone is convinced that the President, louis abinador, will be re-elected The elections will also see the renewal of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. To do this, the candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), also known as the “target” because he comes from the ranks of the traditional Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), needs 50% plus one vote.

Thus, as polls predicted, Abinander and his heavy hand on the Haitian issue would confirm the turn of events in the US, which was caused by popular boredom with corruption and violence at the time. Since the 2019 anti-government protests punishment vote Participated in elections and caused political change brazil, chili, Colombia, Ecuador, peru, Bolivia, argentina, uruguay, Costa Rica, honduras, guatemala And, most recently, panama,

Twelve countries, except Paraguay, where the ruling party was renewed with the alternative candidate Santiago Peña, and, above all, El Salvador. In the Central American country, Nayib Bukele won the elections with the same force he did when he concentrated all the power of the state.

The Mexican elections in June, where the official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum starts as a great favorite, will reinforce the trend that Abinader is now pursuing in the absence of knowing whether he will regain his political hegemony in the first round.

,This is a country where democracy has to win., This is a country with a lot of democratic maturity,” Abinader stressed after casting his vote at the polls, “crossing the register,” as it is called in popular neighborhoods of Santo Domingo.

The Dominican controversy eventually became pulse between two presidents, because Lionel FernandezThe chief of La Fuerza del Pueblo, who ruled the Caribbean country for 12 years, has emerged as Abinader’s main rival.

Lionel Part of Puebla GroupPlatform of leftists, revolutionaries and populists, led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, despite the fact that in coming to power in 1996 he carried out one of those processes that was only possible under the Caribbean heat: he dissolved his then party , forced to compromise. The Marxist Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), along with right-wing Joaquín Balaguer, sought to prevent the access to power of socialist Peña Gómez, successor to dictator Leonidas Trujillo.

The debate continues at the doors of the Electoral College, now diverted to politics as well as the other national obsession, baseball. When it comes to drawing parallels, Tolentino feels like local New York Yankees star, Juan Soto, is a lot like Abinader. In the last game, Soto hit two ‘home runs’, one hit which took the ball out of the box. They hope the President will do the same to govern for the next four years.