Warning: Polarization Ahead

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Report 23 Jun 2015 by Pavel Isa Contreras and Fabricio Gomez

Executive Summary The political landscape has changed dramatically over the past three weeks, emerging from confusion to arrive at clarity: we now see that the country is headed toward political and electoral polarization. On one side are President Danilo Medina and his Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD); on the other are challenger Luis Abinader and the new Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM), an offshoot of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD). These two poles are now attracting the other political parties and organizations. In late May, the PLD was mired in a severe intern...

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