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04-15-2010, 05:10 PM
President Leonel Fernandez says that the PLD candidate for senator in the National District, president of the Senate Reinaldo Pared Perez is ahead of PRD candidate, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, by 56% to 34%.
On the campaign trail for his party's positioning into the congressional and municipal election, President Leonel Fernandez said that Pared is another of the PLD candidates that is keeping the PLD ahead in the polls. Fernandez expects the ruling party to land 27 senate seats. He added that campaign efforts are ongoing to win in an unprecedented all 31 provinces and the National District, as reported in Hoy. He was speaking to party candidates and supporters at an event at the Teo Cruz Boxing Coliseum yesterday.
In Clave newspaper today, Reinaldo Pared Perez says that his top priority will be to move laws through Congress that need to be adjusted to comply with the recently passed new Constitution. He told Clave that a February poll showed he was leading with 54.3% against Milagros Ortiz Bosch's 43.1%.
In her interview with Clave, former Vice President and Santo Domingo senator Ortiz Bosch said that topping her agenda was to work for attention to accountability in government. She said she would create an office to monitor government spending as allotted in the National Budget. She said she would focus on electricity, security and safety matters if again elected to Congress. She said a recent poll showed she was leading with 55-56%, compared to Reinaldo Pared's 42%.
Pared Perez told Clave he is running on his track record in the Senate. "In four years in the Senate we have only had to suspend two sessions for lack of quorum", he said, to validate his achievements.
But his opponent, Ortiz Bosch says: "He cannot project himself as an independent man. He is very much a man of the President. I do not receive orders. I would not have passed a contract like the one with Barrick Gold. And, the 'barrilito' is a living example of the distortions in the way that the government powers operate."

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