{"id":4141,"date":"2010-09-12T18:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2018-05-17T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:11:30","slug":"sistema-electoral-partidos-politicos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/republica-dominicana\/sistema-de-gobierno\/sistema-electoral-partidos-politicos\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral System and Political Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elections in the\u00a0Dominican Republic,\u00a0held\u00a0every four years, are organized, directed and supervised by the Central Elections Board (JCE, for its acronym in Spanish) and electoral boards under its control, which have the responsibility of guaranteeing the freedom,\u00a0liberty, transparency, equality and objectivity of elections.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Central Elections Board<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Central Elections Board is an autonomous body with legal authority and technical, administrative, budgetary and financial Independence, whose primary purpose is to organize and direct electoral assemblies for the holding of elections and popular participatory mechanisms established by the\u00a0Constitution\u00a0and Dominican laws.\u00a0\u00a0The JCE has regulatory powers and is made up of a president and four members and substitutes, chosen for periods of four years by the Senate of the Republic, with the vote of two thirds of senators present.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Upper Electoral Tribunal<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Upper Electoral Tribunal is the body in charge of judging\u00a0and presiding over,\u00a0with\u00a0definitiveness,\u00a0contentious\u00a0electoral matters and ruling\u00a0on disputes arising within or between political parties, groups and political movements.\u00a0It regulates, in accordance with the law, the procedures of its functions and everything related to its organizations and administrative and financial functioning.\u00a0The tribunal is made up of no less\u00a0than three and no more than five electoral judges and their\u00a0substitutes, designated for a period of four years by the National Council of Magistrate, which will indicate which of the judges will\u00a0occupy the presidency.<\/p>\n

Political Parties<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Dominican Republic\u00a0posseses\u00a0a pluralistic political system.\u00a0It maintains four major parties\u00a0(PLD, PRD, PRM and PRSC) and numerous\u00a0minotiry\u00a0parties. The Dominican population is very politically active.<\/p>\n

The most important political parties in the country are:<\/p>\n

Partido\u00a0de la\u00a0Liberaci\u00f3n\u00a0Dominicana\u00a0(PLD)
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http:\/\/pld.org.do<\/a><\/p>\n

Partido\u00a0Revolucionario\u00a0Moderno\u00a0(PRM)
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http:\/\/prm.org.do<\/a><\/p>\n

Partido\u00a0Revolucionario\u00a0Dominicano\u00a0(PRD)
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http:\/\/prd.org.do<\/a><\/p>\n

Partido\u00a0Reformista\u00a0Social Cristiano (PRSC)
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http:\/\/www.prsc.com.do\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Los\u00a0siguientes\u00a0son\u00a0los\u00a0partidos\u00a0minoritarios\u00a0presentes\u00a0en\u00a0el\u00a0pa\u00eds:<\/p>\n