{"id":477413,"date":"2025-08-04T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/abinader-one-reelection-is-more-than-enough-and-eight-years-are-also-enough\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:58:23","slug":"abinader-one-reelection-is-more-than-enough-and-eight-years-are-also-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/abinader-one-reelection-is-more-than-enough-and-eight-years-are-also-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Abinader: &#8220;One reelection is more than enough and eight years are also enough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong>\u2013 President <strong>Luis Abinader<\/strong> reiterated this Monday that he has no intention of seeking a third presidential term, when questioned about the debates surrounding indefinite re-election in countries like El Salvador and about local speculation of a possible new re-candidacy.<\/p>\n\n\n<strong>\u201cI don&#8217;t want to comment on other countries,\u201d<\/strong> Abinader replied when referring to the constitutional changes in other nations that have enabled indefinite consecutive re-elections.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/abinader-promulga-codigo-penal\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"510566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Abinader promulgates the new Penal Code<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what else I have to do, because we put three locks on it and that is one of the greatest legacies I am going to leave. For me, reelection is more than enough and eight years too,&#8221; the president assured.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Head of State recalled that during his administration, reforms have been promoted to limit presidential re-election, as a way to strengthen the democratic institutions of the country.\n\nAbinader, who assumed his second constitutional term on August 16, 2024, has reiterated on multiple occasions that he will not opt for a third candidacy in 2028, despite the fact that sectors of the ruling party and the opposition have speculated with that possibility.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA Semanal - 04 de Agosto del 2025.\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Bahhe-sHhw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 President Luis Abinader reiterated this Monday that he has no intention of seeking a third presidential term, when questioned about the debates surrounding indefinite re-election in countries like El Salvador and about local speculation of a possible new re-candidacy. \u201cI don&#8217;t want to comment on other countries,\u201d Abinader replied when referring to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":477414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-477413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-luis-abinader"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20cd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ABINADER-EN-LA-SEMANALL-1140x694-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ABINADER-EN-LA-SEMANALL-1140x694-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}