Elections in the Dominican Republic

There were two main candidates in the election of May 2012. One of the candidates was Hipolito Mejia, know as "Papa".  He had been president before a few years previous. 



The other main cnadidate was Danilo Medina.
Lots of the signs were huge but there were thousands of small ones everywhere!

In the weeks building up to the election there were campaign rallies with the streets loaded with people and cars painted  for each political party. The parties have colors so you know by the color of the cars and flags who they were supporting.

There wre literally hundreds if not thousands of cars painted in support of one candidate or another.
One afternoon coming home from church we passed a convoy of over 100 cars and trucks headed east on the freeway.

We happened to be in the street the day this political parade rally passed by.

The were all sorts of vehicles painted up...in this case for Papa. 

This one looks a lot like a police car painted  with a canadates colors.

This is a Papa rally with Danilo signs visible in the background.

More Papa supporters with  another Danilo sign visible.  We weren't sure that we were going to be able to get through. 

The election was close with Danilo finally winning. We were glad it was finally finished and we could travel  around town without running into someone's rally.