SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez pledged to the ruling PLD party’s senior leaders that he won’t seek the Presidency in the 2012 elections, said the entity’s general secretary Reinaldo Pared  today.

He said on Fernandez’s initiative the Political Committee decided to establish one consecutive reelection in the bill for the constitutional reform, without being able to seek a third term.

However a President who has governed twice would have the opportunity to make a bid four years later.

Interviewed by Cesar Medina, Cristian Jiménez and Luisín Mejía on ColorVision, the Senate president affirmed that the PLD’s top organism would adopt the measure, for which he said has no doubts it would be approved.

When reminded that even if it’s approved in the Constitution, it wouldn’t affect Fernandez because the law isn’t retroactive, Pared said only that it was the President himself who proposed it. “The decision is what was agreed in the Political Committee, and on the President’s initiative, that he would not aspire again.”