SANTO DOMINGO: Opposition candidate Luis Abinader swept to victory in the Dominican Republic’s presidential election, early results showed Monday (Tuesday in Manila), ending 16 years of unbroken rule by the Caribbean nation’s center-left Dominican Liberation Party after voters braved a worsening coronavirus outbreak to cast their ballots. Abinader, the candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Part, took 52.4 percent of the vote with 93.2 percent of polling station returns counted, the Central Electoral Board said. “We won, today we won,” a victorious Abinader told dozens of supporters at his campaign headquarters in the capital Santo Domingo.

Source: Manila Times July 07, 2020 17:05 UTC