I hope you know all the acronyms
Hip?lito may have promised the PRSC the presidency of the Lower Chamber. The PRD was backing Pacheco more than Hip?lito. But at the same time, the PRSC needed to get its house in order.
Lila wasn't the only proposed candidate. V?ctor Bison? sought the candidacy, while Amable Aristy Castro and An?bal P?ez were brokering negotiations for anyone willing to pay. Leonel Fern?ndez asked Rafael Bello Andino (president of the PRSC) to define which candidate the PLD was supposed to back. Fern?ndez and Bello Andino were supposed to meet and discuss Lila's position, but the meeting never took place. In the end, V?ctor Bison? stood up during the Chamber session and announced that his party wasn't presenting an oficial ballot.
The PRSC didn't bounce back from Balaguer's death. They're disorganized, like the PRD. They may come in strenght, but not before 2004. The PLD recognized this, and voted for Pacheco. This seems to be a stroke of genius, because even after voting to oust Lila, everybody still makes it look like it was Hip?litos failure (and let's face it, Guido's appearance didn't help). Now, there is a rift between the PRSC and the PPH. And to boot, the PRD voted in support of PLD's Gabriel Castro as president of the ADN, as a show of gratitude. I don't know if the PRD needed to do this, since the abstinence from PRSC Diputados almost ensured a PRD victory anyway.
The PRD voted against Lila, the PLD voted against her and the PRSC didn't vote at all. If Lila wants to pretend that the only person who let her down was Hip?lito, she has a week to make a crying fit, because her time in the spotlight is over.