Clear management for the president in Dominican elections

The preliminary figures when 38 % of the votes have been counted present a help of 59.24 % for incumbent President Luis Abinader and 26.97 % for essential challenger Leonel Fernandez. It agrees nicely with the polls main as much as an election that has been largely characterised by the disaster within the violence-ravaged neighboring nation of Haiti.

The distinction is nice between the 2 international locations that share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Gang violence and chaos have characterised Haiti for a lot of months, and the unstable scenario alongside the border turned an essential challenge within the Dominican election marketing campaign.

It’s nonetheless not a subject that has divided the politicians on the high. Each Abinader and Fernandez – who has been president twice earlier than and served a complete of three phrases – take a troublesome line on the matter.

Abinader additionally boasts of getting succeeded in dealing with the nation’s financial system and the corona pandemic. The businessman was elected in the course of the pandemic in 2020, on guarantees to revive belief within the authorities after a number of corruption scandals. When he got here to energy, he started constructing a 164 kilometer lengthy border wall with Haiti, and final 12 months he deported over 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 migrants.