Javier García will begin a tour of the US next week, with a schedule of oaths, political meetings, and contacts with sectors of the Dominican diaspora.
The presidential candidate of the PLD will also seek to approach leaders, militants, professionals, entrepreneurs, community activists, and representatives of the press in a tour that confirms the party’s bet on its base abroad.
Javier García and his bet on the diáspora
The visit of Javier García will have stops in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. At each point, there will be acts of oath-taking and meetings with sympathizers, a strategy that the leader has repeated both inside and outside the country to maintain structure and political presence.
The agenda begins on Tuesday 16 at Alianza Dominicana, in Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, where a massive oath-taking is scheduled for 6:30 pm. The next day, he will offer a press conference at Mamajuana, in Inwood, at 4:00 pm.
Calendar of Javier García’s tour
- Tuesday 16: massive oath-taking in Washington Heights.
- Wednesday 17: press conference in Inwood.
- Thursday 18: oath-taking in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
- Saturday 20: activity in Philadelphia.
- Saturday 20: oath-taking in Paterson, New Jersey.
The route continues on Thursday 18 at the Biblioteca de Lawrence, Massachusetts, and on Saturday 20 adds two more acts: one at Serrata Events and Party, in Philadelphia, and another at Bocaditos Bistro, in Paterson. The sequence shows an attempt at simultaneous mobilization in Dominican communities with high electoral concentration.
The political weight of Javier García in the PLD
The original report highlights that Javier García has been the only presidential candidate of the PLD who in the last three years has traveled province by province, municipality by municipality, and district by district, with massive meetings to relaunch the peledeist structure after the 2024 defeat.
That territorial work has allowed him to maintain internal visibility and, according to the source text, to reactivate the organization. In November 2024, he had already made a tour of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Boston that ended with majority support from leaders and members of the Central Committee.
“Javier García” combines party structure, territorial presence, and an external agenda to consolidate support among peledeists and Dominican residents in the US.
The external agenda and the Dominican vote
The presence of Javier García in the diáspora also has a clear political reading: the Dominican vote in the US is usually decisive in internal and general elections due to its ability to mobilize economic, community, and symbolic support within Dominican parties.
At the beginning of this year, the candidate stated that, if he reaches the presidency, he would promote a guarantee fund to support investments by Dominicans abroad in the Dominican Republic. That proposal, according to the source content, received support from political, community, and press leaders.
With this new tour, Javier García is once again placing the diáspora at the center of his strategy, while the PLD continues to measure forces in an internal scenario where the organization is trying to recover political ground and cohesion.
The visit of Javier García to the diáspora seeks to maintain that impulse outside the country and strengthen the link with the Dominican militancy in the US.
