Analysis. Abinader owes his high approval ratings most of all to the policy of combating immigration. In the election campaign, Abinader promised to finish a wall with Haiti as soon as possible.

written by Claudia Fanti

Topic Latin America

May 23, 2024

Incumbent President Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), with the support of 61 percent of prospective voters, won Sunday’s presidential elections in the Dominican Republic. The other leading candidates were far behind, with three-time president Leonel Fernández of the People’s Force at 20% and lawyer Abel Martínez of the Dominican Liberation Party with 10%.

Abinader owes his high approval ratings most of all to the policy of combating immigration – one that is very popular everywhere and at all times, but all the more so now in the Caribbean country, which happens to share the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, the poorest and most turbulent country on the continent. Abinader’s country has a much better economic situation: the Dominican GDP per capita is........

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