PRD not convinced

[NewsWhore]

Despite the President's efforts to convince them to the contrary, at a press conference after a meeting between the PRD and President Leonel Fernandez, the opposition party spokesmen announced that they would be sticking to their position that a constitutional reform should be conducted through a constituent assembly, a special non-Congressional body. Yesterday's meeting at the Presidential Palace was attended by PRD head Ramon Alburquerque and secretary general Orlando Jorge Mera. The meeting began at 5pm and ended at 6:40pm. Interestingly, the PRD rejected the option of a constituent assembly when it was in government and had majority in Congress and instead pushed through modifications proposed by then President Hipolito Mejia that enabled the latter to run for re-election.

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