1. pph had the constitution changed to be able to have hipolito stand again.
2. pph have placed men, 'sympathetic' to their cause on the electoral board.
3. pph believes they have cast the other prd presidential candidates aside.
4. pph believes they have removed the old prd president and placed their own man.
5. pph now have hipolito 'officially' signed up as the prd presidential candidate.
six months ago nobody would have believed the pph would have got as far as number 5 and it is amazing to see how they have managed to get through each stumbling block with apparent ease. everytime one is passed their confidence must go higher and higher.
i believe number 7 is the final stumbling block in which the pph will have hipolito win the election by hook or by crook, or even, as a last resort, by having no election at all.
what about number 6 you ask. number six is how to handle the church. this is where juan bosch lost it in his last elections. in the dr, if the government deems not to listen to the church, they pay the consequences.
the pph and especially hipolito, up to now, have been especially quiet about the church, by not contesting anything, or even "pooh-poohing" any of the findings of the church. this has particularly bothered our opus dei cardinal, who always had a particularly special relationship with balaguer, and a good one with leonel (our cardinal loves to be in the limelight - something he does not get with hipolito).
who can blame the pph? they have concentrated on each stumbling block, one at a time. they prefer to deal with the next, once the previous one is overcome (and only then). very shrewd. even xr as an "astute political observer" can't fail to observe this (it would be easy to throw in a jibe here about how if he is such an astute political observer, why did he fail to observe the fraud that was carried out in florida, but it is cheap, antagonistic and not dr related, so i shall resist the temptation).
now, however, with number 5 done, they are starting on number 6. sanchez baret, the 'other' prd party political president has started today by basically claiming that one sector of the church is getting itself too involved in politics and should keep a distance.
notice how he said that it is one sector. this is the pph formula that has worked so successfully. if there is one group against them, they break down that group into different factors, looking for the weak spot. using this tactic, they split the super seven and they made it easier to depose hatuey by keeping subervi (who continues to be played and waste everybody's time).
eventually they will find somebody, semi-prominent in the church who is sympathetic to the pph. that semi-prominent person will suddenly be elevated to the status of the cardinal (politically speaking) and be allowed to split the church'es way of thinking, leaving people confused about what is the church'es right and what is the church'es wrong political stand-point.
assuming most fellow dr1'ers don't want the pph to win the next elections, it is very, very important that the church stays together and doesn't fragment its stand against them.
however once the pph have found a split and exploited it, roll on number 7.
i believe the master tactician behind all of this is sjb - but that is something else.
2. pph have placed men, 'sympathetic' to their cause on the electoral board.
3. pph believes they have cast the other prd presidential candidates aside.
4. pph believes they have removed the old prd president and placed their own man.
5. pph now have hipolito 'officially' signed up as the prd presidential candidate.
six months ago nobody would have believed the pph would have got as far as number 5 and it is amazing to see how they have managed to get through each stumbling block with apparent ease. everytime one is passed their confidence must go higher and higher.
i believe number 7 is the final stumbling block in which the pph will have hipolito win the election by hook or by crook, or even, as a last resort, by having no election at all.
what about number 6 you ask. number six is how to handle the church. this is where juan bosch lost it in his last elections. in the dr, if the government deems not to listen to the church, they pay the consequences.
the pph and especially hipolito, up to now, have been especially quiet about the church, by not contesting anything, or even "pooh-poohing" any of the findings of the church. this has particularly bothered our opus dei cardinal, who always had a particularly special relationship with balaguer, and a good one with leonel (our cardinal loves to be in the limelight - something he does not get with hipolito).
who can blame the pph? they have concentrated on each stumbling block, one at a time. they prefer to deal with the next, once the previous one is overcome (and only then). very shrewd. even xr as an "astute political observer" can't fail to observe this (it would be easy to throw in a jibe here about how if he is such an astute political observer, why did he fail to observe the fraud that was carried out in florida, but it is cheap, antagonistic and not dr related, so i shall resist the temptation).
now, however, with number 5 done, they are starting on number 6. sanchez baret, the 'other' prd party political president has started today by basically claiming that one sector of the church is getting itself too involved in politics and should keep a distance.
notice how he said that it is one sector. this is the pph formula that has worked so successfully. if there is one group against them, they break down that group into different factors, looking for the weak spot. using this tactic, they split the super seven and they made it easier to depose hatuey by keeping subervi (who continues to be played and waste everybody's time).
eventually they will find somebody, semi-prominent in the church who is sympathetic to the pph. that semi-prominent person will suddenly be elevated to the status of the cardinal (politically speaking) and be allowed to split the church'es way of thinking, leaving people confused about what is the church'es right and what is the church'es wrong political stand-point.
assuming most fellow dr1'ers don't want the pph to win the next elections, it is very, very important that the church stays together and doesn't fragment its stand against them.
however once the pph have found a split and exploited it, roll on number 7.
i believe the master tactician behind all of this is sjb - but that is something else.
