The World - News from Nov. 24, 1985
An estimated 500,000 members of the ruling Dominican Revolutionary Party will vote today in a primary to choose a presidential candidate for next year’s general elections in the Dominican Republic. The party’s candidate to the May 16 elections will be chosen directly by the party’s membership, and not by party delegates as in the past. President Jorge Blanco, who is not running for a second four-year term, supports Santo Domingo Mayor Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, 48.
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