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2024 Dominican Republic general election 19 May 2024 Presidential election ← 2020 2028 → Turnout 54.37% (0.92 pp) Nominee Luis Abinader Leonel Fernández Abel Martínez [es] Party PRM FP PLD Alliance Dominican Republic Advances PRM PRSC DxC PHD PNVC APD PP Rescue Dominican Republic FP BIS PUN PQDC FNP National Progressive Bloc PLD PV UDC PRSD PCR PLR MODA Running mate Raquel Peña Ingrid ...
The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.
The Dominican Republic use a mixed system composed of the three most common methods used worldwide. For presidential election a two-round system is used, where if no candidate receives a required number of votes then there is a runoff between the two candidates with the most votes, for senators election the first-past-the-post system is used, where the highest polling candidate wins the ...
The election was a partial realignment, with the Modern Revolutionary Party entering a status as a major party in the country, replacing the Dominican Revolutionary Party, who saw poor election results for the second election in a row and who obtained its lowest total vote share and seat count in its history. Abinader would be officially sworn ...
The 21 elected members of the House of Assembly are elected in single-member constituencies under first-past-the-post voting.A further nine members are either elected by the Assembly after it convenes or appointed by the President (five on the advice of the prime minister and four on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition) to be Senators; from there the President is chosen by the Assembly ...
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Municipalities in the Dominican Republic are governed by ayuntamientos, which are the basic political institutions in the country. Ayuntamientos have independent legal personality and have two governing bodies, the municipal council, composed of the mayor and a plenary assembly of councillors (the local legislative branch), and the Office of the Mayor, known as Alcaldía, directed by the mayor ...
The previous parliamentary elections were held in 2010, and fresh elections would have usually been due in 2014 as Congress has a four-year term. However, in an effort to revert to the pre-1996 system and synchronize the dates of presidential and parliamentary and local elections in a single electoral year, the congressional term starting in 2010 was exceptionally extended to six years in ...