First Lady to be ruling party’s vice presidential candidate (Update)

Santo Domingo. – The first lady Margarita Cedeño will be the vice presidential candidate of the ruling PLD party in next year’s election, the presidential candidate Danilo Medina’s campaign director of operations announced Tuesday.

The also San Juan province senator Felix Bautista said the different surveys reveal that the population favor Cedeño as Medina’s ticket mate, for the May 20, 2012 presidential election.

The lawmaker, in a press conference in PLD headquarters, said “Dominican society is soon going to find out the PLD’s high level of popularity, the candidate Danilo Medina and the first lady, who’ll be the vice-presidential candidate."

Not official

In an unexpected development, Medina campaign chief Francisco Javier Garcia affirmed a few hours later that the presidential candidate has yet to choose his running mate.