{"id":519096,"date":"2026-07-31T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/two-of-the-eight-pld-candidates-already-support-gonzalo-castillo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:30:13","slug":"two-of-the-eight-pld-candidates-already-support-gonzalo-castillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/two-of-the-eight-pld-candidates-already-support-gonzalo-castillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Two of the eight PLD candidates already support Gonzalo Castillo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo. \u2014<\/strong> In a matter of weeks, two of the eight presidential hopefuls of the Dominican Liberation Party<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"674892\"> (PLD) <\/a>have declined their aspirations to support the pre-candidacy of Gonzalo Castillo. First it was Charlie Mariotti; now Mario Bruno, a member of the Central Committee, has joined them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the names, the political signal is clear: leaders who had personal projects are deciding to dismantle them to converge on a single candidacy. It is the type of movement that, historically, precedes the formation of a consensus candidacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/pld-solicita-declarar\/\">PLD requests to declare a state of emergency in the health system due to the deterioration of public hospitals<\/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\">\u201cIt is not about a person, it is about a project. Every colleague who joins understands that unity is the only way for the PLD to win again,\u201d stated Yuri Enrique Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Castillo thus consolidates himself as the figure around whom internal leaderships are beginning to align, in a process that\u2014if the pace is maintained\u2014could completely reorder the map of PLD pre-candidacies heading into 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. \u2014 In a matter of weeks, two of the eight presidential hopefuls of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) have declined their aspirations to support the pre-candidacy of Gonzalo Castillo. First it was Charlie Mariotti; now Mario Bruno, a member of the Central Committee, has joined them. Beyond the names, the political signal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133559,"featured_media":519097,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2b2w","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-31-at-6.28.44-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Preciosa Jimenez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-31-at-6.28.44-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519096","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\/133559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}