Danilo wasn't there

[NewsWhore]

The most striking thing about the PLD announcement of President Leonel Fernandez as the PLD's candidate to the 2008 May election event at Santo Domingo's basketball arena yesterday was the fact that former PLD chief strategy mastermind and former Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina was not there. Medina, a staunch opponent of presidential re-election, was defeated in his party's primaries by Leonel Fernandez. Since then, Medina has been absent from the political scene, sitting on the sidelines and not making any comments. During the official proclamation of President Leonel Fernandez's candidacy, Medina's name was mentioned only once, when Cesar Pina Toribio, the PLD official who oversaw the primaries, said that Leonel Fernandez had garnered 71% of the vote and Danilo Medina just 29%. This is the first time that Medina is not handling presidential campaign activities for Fernandez. He served as campaign chief in the 1996 and 2004 election campaigns. He campaigned on his own as the PLD candidate in 2000, and was defeated by Hipolito Mejia. According to some, Danilo Medina was represented at Sunday's event by deputies and senators who belong to his movement.

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