NewsWhore
10-13-2011, 03:10 PM
A new factor that might stand in the way of a proposed meeting between PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia and party president Miguel Vargas might be the choice of vice presidential candidate.
According to information obtained by Diario Libre, the Vargas team is demanding the vice presidential slot as a condition for joining the campaign. The current VP candidate is Luis Abinader, following a pre-campaign political agreement with Mejia.
On Tuesday, Julio Marinez, a close associate of Vargas, told Diario Libre that they were demanding that Mejia should respect the space won by the Vargas camp in the convention, in order for them to take part in the election campaign. Meanwhile other leaders close to the party president confirmed that there was a movement to take him (Vargas) to the vice president spot. Yesterday a rumor went around that the two PRD leaders would meet at party headquarters and that there would be "surprises," but the meeting did not take place. The supposed sponsor of this meeting, secretary general Orlando Jorge Mera, refused to comment on the matter. However, he said that he was fulfilling his duty as secretary general, but did not go into details.
Relations between Mejia and Vargas were deeply shattered after the last party nomination process in May, in which Mejia won the nomination and Vargas felt that he had been adversely affected by irregularities, allegedly caused by some PLD members voting in the primary. Since then, all efforts to bring the two together have failed. The differences and the sense of unease have been evident: Mejia did not attend the PRD's 50th anniversary celebrations, and Vargas did not attend the national campaign team presentation. Moreover, several leading members of the Vargas camp have resigned from their jobs in the Mejia election team and have criticized the "excess of triumphalism" in the other group. The last claim was publicly aired in a letter sent to the media by Vargas spokesman Victor Gomez Casanova.
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According to information obtained by Diario Libre, the Vargas team is demanding the vice presidential slot as a condition for joining the campaign. The current VP candidate is Luis Abinader, following a pre-campaign political agreement with Mejia.
On Tuesday, Julio Marinez, a close associate of Vargas, told Diario Libre that they were demanding that Mejia should respect the space won by the Vargas camp in the convention, in order for them to take part in the election campaign. Meanwhile other leaders close to the party president confirmed that there was a movement to take him (Vargas) to the vice president spot. Yesterday a rumor went around that the two PRD leaders would meet at party headquarters and that there would be "surprises," but the meeting did not take place. The supposed sponsor of this meeting, secretary general Orlando Jorge Mera, refused to comment on the matter. However, he said that he was fulfilling his duty as secretary general, but did not go into details.
Relations between Mejia and Vargas were deeply shattered after the last party nomination process in May, in which Mejia won the nomination and Vargas felt that he had been adversely affected by irregularities, allegedly caused by some PLD members voting in the primary. Since then, all efforts to bring the two together have failed. The differences and the sense of unease have been evident: Mejia did not attend the PRD's 50th anniversary celebrations, and Vargas did not attend the national campaign team presentation. Moreover, several leading members of the Vargas camp have resigned from their jobs in the Mejia election team and have criticized the "excess of triumphalism" in the other group. The last claim was publicly aired in a letter sent to the media by Vargas spokesman Victor Gomez Casanova.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#12)