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NewsWhore
11-14-2007, 01:00 PM
After much hue and cry, the PLD party has announced that it is removing the controversial television spot featuring the President and an active military officer, who is also a professional actor. While stating that "no one can be forced to do something that is not covered by the law, nor prohibited from doing something the law does not prohibit," Spokesman for the ruling PLD party, Cesar Pina Toribio, who is also the presidential legal advisor, stated that the PLD would refrain from political propaganda if the other parties also cease their campaigns. Other party spokespersons were not so cordial, and told reporters from El Caribe newspaper that there was no reason to take their messages off the air, since they did not violate the Electoral Law.

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