Local May 15, 2016 - 9:23 pm

Dominican Republic President breezes to reelection

Santo Domingo.- As of 2:40am Danilo Medina had 62% of the votes to Luis Abinader’s 35, with 42.38% of votes counted.

FILE. Dominican Republic president Danilo Medina on Sunday breezed through a complicated general elections to a 61% lead over opposition PRM party candidate Luis Abinader, at 35% of the votes.

Dominican Republic president Danilo Medinaon Sunday breezed through a complicated general elections to a 61% lead over opposition PRM party candidate LuisAbinader, at 35% of the votes.

The Central Electoral Board’s first bulletin places thefollowing percentages for the presidential candidates, with 343, 979 votes, toAbinader’s 196,652 votes, or less than 5% of the total ballots cast.

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