{"id":521821,"date":"2026-08-17T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/santiago-matias-nears-4-in-presidential-preference-even-though-his-party-is-not-yet-official\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:00:32","slug":"dominicanos-primero-nears-4-in-presidential-preference-despite-not-being-an-official-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/dominicanos-primero-nears-4-in-presidential-preference-despite-not-being-an-official-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicanos Primero nears 4% in presidential preference despite not being an official party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Santo Domingo.<\/strong>\u2014 The communicator and businessman Santiago Mat\u00edas, known as Alofoke<\/strong>, registers a 3.6% electoral preference<\/strong> when asked which option the public would vote for if the presidential elections were held today, according to a measurement by ACD Media<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data is relevant because Dominicanos Primero<\/strong>, the political project promoted by Mat\u00edas, does not yet have official recognition as a political party<\/strong>, so its level of preference appears in the measurement despite not currently competing under a recognized political organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the results, the PRM<\/strong> leads the preferences with 17.4%<\/strong>, followed by Fuerza del Pueblo (FP)<\/strong> with 14.2%<\/strong> and the PLD<\/strong>, which reaches 9.5%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, other political options accumulate 7.8%<\/strong>, while Santiago Mat\u00edas obtains 3.6%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study also reflects a high level of uncertainty among respondents. 47.5%<\/strong> answered that they do not know or did not want to answer, while the question was applied under the assumption that the presidential elections were held currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fact to observe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although Mat\u00edas’ percentage is still below that of the main traditional political organizations, his 3.6% is significant as he is a figure who does not yet have an officially recognized party<\/strong> and is in the process of promoting a new political organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mat\u00edas has promoted Dominicanos Primero<\/strong> as an alternative to traditional parties and has led signature collection drives in different parts of the country with the goal of meeting the requirements established for the organization’s recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Santo Domingo.\u2014 The communicator and businessman Santiago Mat\u00edas, known as Alofoke, registers a 3.6% electoral preference when asked which option the public would vote for if the presidential elections were held today, according to a measurement by ACD Media. The data is relevant because Dominicanos Primero, the political project promoted by Mat\u00edas, does not yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":521822,"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":[44182,44706,2005],"class_list":["post-521821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-cover","tag-dominicans-first","tag-santiago-matias"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bKt","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-11.22.53-AM-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\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-11.22.53-AM-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521821","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=521821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}