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01-10-2007, 04:50 PM
Writing in today's Hoy newspaper, Raimundo Tirado says that President Leonel Fernandez has chosen PRD pre-candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado as his contender for the 2008 presidential election because he is a vulnerable candidate. Tirado comments that the PLD knows that former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch could attract the hundreds of thousands of voters that voted for Fernandez (PLD) in 2004 but whose expectations were not met. He also comments she could attract traditional PLD members who feel that the new PLD politicians have distanced themselves from party founder Juan Bosch's teachings. Meanwhile, Vargas Maldonado, a former Minister of Public Works in the Mejia administration and beneficiary of major transactions with the government, has already spent millions on posters nationwide announcing his candidacy for President. Polls show him positioned to win the PRD candidacy in the upcoming PRD primary.
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