{"id":519671,"date":"2026-08-05T11:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/santiago-matias-demands-that-police-and-military-personnel-be-allowed-to-vote-in-the-dr-just-like-other-state-employees\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:47:54","slug":"santiago-matias-demands-that-police-and-military-personnel-be-allowed-to-vote-in-the-dr-just-like-other-state-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/santiago-matias-demands-that-police-and-military-personnel-be-allowed-to-vote-in-the-dr-just-like-other-state-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Mat\u00edas demands that police and military personnel be allowed to vote in the DR, just like other state employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong>&#8211; The communicator and businessman <strong>Santiago Mat\u00edas<\/strong> stated that agents of the National Police and members of the Armed Forces have the right to vote in the elections of the <strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong>, just like the other employees who work for the Dominican <strong>State<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mat\u00edas maintained that, if it is considered that there is a conflict of interest due to belonging to government institutions, then the same criterion should be applied to all public employees and they should be prohibited from exercising their right to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You might be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/tribunal-declara-inadmisible\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"692901\">Court declares Manolo Ozuna&#8217;s accusation against Santiago Mat\u00edas inadmissible for the third time<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cNational Police agents and military personnel have the right to vote in elections in the Dominican Republic, just like other employees who work for the Dominican State. If that were not the case, it should be prohibited for everyone who works in government agencies to exercise their right to vote due to an alleged conflict of interest,\u201d<\/strong> he expressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santiago Mat\u00edas&#8217; statements spark debate regarding the electoral participation of members of the military and police forces, a topic that has been a subject of discussion in different sectors of Dominican society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.&#8211; The communicator and businessman Santiago Mat\u00edas stated that agents of the National Police and members of the Armed Forces have the right to vote in the elections of the Dominican Republic, just like the other employees who work for the Dominican State. Mat\u00edas maintained that, if it is considered that there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":519672,"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":[44575,44182,40819,2005],"class_list":["post-519671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-2028-elections","tag-cover","tag-police","tag-santiago-matias"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bbN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Santiago_Matias_2020.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Santiago_Matias_2020.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519671","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}