NewsWhore
04-07-2008, 04:00 PM
A month and a half to go for the 16 May Election Day, and former President Hipolito Mejia and his PPH faction of the PRD announced over the weekend that they would campaign for Miguel Vargas Maldonado, the PRD candidate. Vargas served as minister of Public Works during the 2000-2004 Mejia administration.
Up to this moment, Vargas has campaigned using his name, in order to distance the PRD from Mejia and the PPH, whose reputation was tainted by the fallout from the Mejia administration. Mejia's decision to campaign for Vargas a complete change from the previous strategy of distancing the candidate from his former boss.
However, Hipolito Mejia did not show up at the huge rally that the PRD staged in Santo Domingo on Sunday. Participating were Angel Miolan, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Rafael Subervi Bonilla and Orlando Jorge Mera, secretary general, among others.
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Up to this moment, Vargas has campaigned using his name, in order to distance the PRD from Mejia and the PPH, whose reputation was tainted by the fallout from the Mejia administration. Mejia's decision to campaign for Vargas a complete change from the previous strategy of distancing the candidate from his former boss.
However, Hipolito Mejia did not show up at the huge rally that the PRD staged in Santo Domingo on Sunday. Participating were Angel Miolan, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Rafael Subervi Bonilla and Orlando Jorge Mera, secretary general, among others.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)