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05-29-2012, 01:50 PM
Former PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, met yesterday, Monday 28 May with leading members of his election campaign team to evaluate the past election process and convene the Political Commission for Friday, 1 June, a step that could move the opposition party closer to internal division. At the end of the meeting, PRD general secretary Orlando Jorge Mera reported that they had discussed and reviewed several reports related to the elections. He said that one of the points to be dealt with by the Political Commission is the stance adopted by several politicians, including party president Miguel Vargas Maldonado, in the recent elections.
The contradictions between the followers of Mejia and Vargas were "fiery red" yesterday and they took a new turn with the expulsion from the party for "high treason" of the deputy Virgilio Manuel Gonzalez (Manny), and another two members of the PRD Municipal Committee in San Francisco de Macoris. Jorge Pena, the PRD general secretary in the city said that they have begun to kick out the political "traitors and the garbage" in their area. Pena said that the people who have been purged from the party had tempted the PRD members with money in return for voting for another party's candidate. In addition, other internal sectors joined in to ask for the purging of the PRD president because he did not support the PRD candidate's presidential campaign.
During the afternoon, a group of young people belonging to the Dominican Revolutionary Youth (JRD), headed by Darwin Feliz Matos, the national secretary for Communication, held a press conference on the sidewalk outside the PRD National House on Enrique Jimenez Moya Avenue in Santo Domingo, where they read a document that called for Vargas to resign as party president. "We demand that you as president of this organization, come to your senses and present your resignation or you will be liable for expulsion for "high treason," said the letter. The young PRD members had to read the document on the sidewalk because party security would not allow them to go in to the statue of Jose Francisco Pena Gomez. Meanwhile, the PRD's provincial president in Santiago, Ulises Rodriguez, called on Miguel Vargas to resign from the party presidency.
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The contradictions between the followers of Mejia and Vargas were "fiery red" yesterday and they took a new turn with the expulsion from the party for "high treason" of the deputy Virgilio Manuel Gonzalez (Manny), and another two members of the PRD Municipal Committee in San Francisco de Macoris. Jorge Pena, the PRD general secretary in the city said that they have begun to kick out the political "traitors and the garbage" in their area. Pena said that the people who have been purged from the party had tempted the PRD members with money in return for voting for another party's candidate. In addition, other internal sectors joined in to ask for the purging of the PRD president because he did not support the PRD candidate's presidential campaign.
During the afternoon, a group of young people belonging to the Dominican Revolutionary Youth (JRD), headed by Darwin Feliz Matos, the national secretary for Communication, held a press conference on the sidewalk outside the PRD National House on Enrique Jimenez Moya Avenue in Santo Domingo, where they read a document that called for Vargas to resign as party president. "We demand that you as president of this organization, come to your senses and present your resignation or you will be liable for expulsion for "high treason," said the letter. The young PRD members had to read the document on the sidewalk because party security would not allow them to go in to the statue of Jose Francisco Pena Gomez. Meanwhile, the PRD's provincial president in Santiago, Ulises Rodriguez, called on Miguel Vargas to resign from the party presidency.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)