NewsWhore
05-10-2011, 03:50 PM
In today's page two editorial, Diario Libre editor Ines Aizpun predicts that Danilo Medina, aspiring presidential candidate for the PLD, has a tougher task ahead for his candidacy than Mejia.
"In this campaign, which is going to be long and difficult, Medina still has to win in the purpose universe before reaching out to conquer voters," she writes. She writes that while Medina is the clear favorite, he is not the favorite of the president of his party or of the government. "If he wants funding, go ahead or party cooperation, a project without obstacles that will keep the PLD in power... he will need the complicity of Fernandez," she writes. She reminds her readers: "Has anyone forgotten how Balaguer treated Peynado?" She makes the point that sometimes the opponent is not the one to throw the stone.
Aizpun observes that Hipolito has an advantage from that respect because he does not have two fronts to deal with, and being in opposition, it is easier for him to be emphatic with the needs of the people.
Finally, she comments that Danilo needs to re-conquer the votes n and not few n of those that Leonel has lost, if he wants to challenge Mejia.
In a reference to the signature collection campaign for Leonel Fernandez's re-election, she concludes: "It is probably not his 'destiny' to win with the famous two million signatures but with the others..."
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"In this campaign, which is going to be long and difficult, Medina still has to win in the purpose universe before reaching out to conquer voters," she writes. She writes that while Medina is the clear favorite, he is not the favorite of the president of his party or of the government. "If he wants funding, go ahead or party cooperation, a project without obstacles that will keep the PLD in power... he will need the complicity of Fernandez," she writes. She reminds her readers: "Has anyone forgotten how Balaguer treated Peynado?" She makes the point that sometimes the opponent is not the one to throw the stone.
Aizpun observes that Hipolito has an advantage from that respect because he does not have two fronts to deal with, and being in opposition, it is easier for him to be emphatic with the needs of the people.
Finally, she comments that Danilo needs to re-conquer the votes n and not few n of those that Leonel has lost, if he wants to challenge Mejia.
In a reference to the signature collection campaign for Leonel Fernandez's re-election, she concludes: "It is probably not his 'destiny' to win with the famous two million signatures but with the others..."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)