{"id":521752,"date":"2026-08-16T12:36:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=521752"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:37:02","slug":"santiago-matias-thanks-supporters-for-backing-dominicanos-primero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/politics\/santiago-matias-thanks-supporters-for-backing-dominicanos-primero\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Mat\u00edas thanks supporters for backing Dominicanos Primero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communicator and businessman <strong>Santiago Mat\u00edas<\/strong> thanked residents of Santiago on Sunday for their support during a signature-collection drive aimed at securing legal recognition for his political project, <strong>Dominicanos Primero<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mat\u00edas said the response from residents exceeded his expectations, noting that many citizens voluntarily attended the event to publicly express their support for the initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cI am grateful to Santiago. We have already begun collecting signatures, and the people of Santiago have responded as they always have with us,\u201d<\/strong> Mat\u00edas said during the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The businessman said the turnout reinforces what he described as a trend he had already observed during previous activities in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event represents one of the first public steps for <strong>Dominicanos Primero<\/strong>, through which Mat\u00edas seeks to establish a new political structure and advance its formalization process before electoral authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communicator and businessman Santiago Mat\u00edas thanked residents of Santiago on Sunday for their support during a signature-collection drive aimed at securing legal recognition for his political project, Dominicanos Primero. Mat\u00edas said the response from residents exceeded his expectations, noting that many citizens voluntarily attended the event to publicly express their support for the initiative. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":521753,"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":[40216,36953],"tags":[611,40231],"class_list":["post-521752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","category-politics","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bJm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/8876200b-d2e6-4581-8867-00d35379be28.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News","Politics"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/8876200b-d2e6-4581-8867-00d35379be28.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521752","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}