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01-30-2007, 05:00 PM
Presidential hopeful Miguel Vargas Maldonado has won the PRD presidential nomination and will run on the party's ticket in the 2008 presidential race. With 93% of the votes counted, Vargas had received about 80% of the votes. His rival, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch publicly acknowledged her defeat. PRD Secretary General Orlando Jorge Mera says that Vargas will officially be proclaimed as the party's candidate at the PRD delegates' convention on 25 February, where 3,000 party representatives will be present. Vargas dedicated the victory to his family and says that he will face any detractors. In a press conference Vargas also commented that he is ready to confront accusers who claim that he is involved in Spain's Marbella corruption scandal and says that those accusations were politically motivated. Vargas has tried to distance himself from the scandal, saying that his only connection with Carlos Sanchez, who was jailed for the case in Spain, is that he sold him a hotel in Santo Domingo and Vargas denies that he abused his powers as Public Works Minister to protect any of Sanchez's interests in the country.
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