NewsWhore
06-23-2006, 03:10 PM
In their analysis today of the forces within the PRD, political analysts Orlando Gil of the Listin Diario and Hector Marte Perez of Diario Libre agree that former Public Works Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado is the political party's dominant force. Gil explained that while Vargas supported a change in the board of the PRD now led by Ramon Alburquerque (president) and Orlando Jorge Mera (secretary general) given the poor showing in the 2006 mid-term election, he accepted to leave the board as is in exchange for the decision to announce the party's Presidential candidate in November and not from January to May, as proposed by the group led by former President Hipolito Mejia (PPH).
Marte highlights that those who seek the Presidential nomination within the party in addition to Miguel Vargas are the former President Hipolito Mejia himself (the Constitution would have to be changed again), former Tourism Minister Rafael (Fello) Subervi, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz, and former attorney generals Enmanuel Esquea and Virgilio Bello Rosa. Of this group, only Vargas and Bello Rosa have not run for President before.
In the 2000 Presidential election, the party received 1.4 million votes. It won the congressional election of 2002 with 963,000 votes and lost with 1.1 million votes in the 2004 Presidential election, but the number of votes cast for the PRD declined again in the recent congressional election, when 931,000 voted for the PRD.
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Marte highlights that those who seek the Presidential nomination within the party in addition to Miguel Vargas are the former President Hipolito Mejia himself (the Constitution would have to be changed again), former Tourism Minister Rafael (Fello) Subervi, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz, and former attorney generals Enmanuel Esquea and Virgilio Bello Rosa. Of this group, only Vargas and Bello Rosa have not run for President before.
In the 2000 Presidential election, the party received 1.4 million votes. It won the congressional election of 2002 with 963,000 votes and lost with 1.1 million votes in the 2004 Presidential election, but the number of votes cast for the PRD declined again in the recent congressional election, when 931,000 voted for the PRD.
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