The presidential candidate for the PRSC, Jacinto Peynado, met members of the Political Commission of the PRSC for several hours to define the campaign strategy for the next two months. The PRSC, recently positioned a distant third in the race in a Gallup poll, must come on very strongly in order to gain enough momentum by March to be considered a possible winner in this year’s election. The key figures of the party, met at the house of Jacinto Peynado and discussed steps to be taken in the crucial months of January and February beginning with a mammoth rally on Sunday, 7 January in Puerto Plata. Those at the meeting included Federico Antún Batlle, Luis Toral Cordova, Alfredo Mota Ruiz, Caonabo Javier Castillo, Leonardo Matos Berrido, José Nicolás de Almanzar, Víctor Gómez Bergés, Joaquín Ricardo, Pedro Romero Confesor, Juan Esteban Olivero Feliz, Carlos Eligio Linares, and Hector Rodriguez Pimentel.
On the two month agenda are the following official gatherings and political rallies:
Jan. 10-11 in Santiago.
Jan. 12-13 San Francisco de Macoris.
Jan. 14, 16 and 17 in Santo Domingo.
Jan. 18 in Santiago.
Jan. 19-20 in Monte Plata.
Jan. 21 in Sanchez Ramirez.
Jan. 23-24 in Santo Domingo.
Jan. 25 in Santiago.
Jan. 26 Azua.
Jan. 27 or 28 in Barahona.
Jan. 30 and 31 in Santo Domingo.
February
Feb. 1 Santiago.
Feb. 2 Dajabon.
Feb. 3 Bonao.
Feb. 4 Monte Cristi.
Feb. 6-7 Santo Domingo.
Feb. 8 Santiago.
Feb. 9 El Seibo.
Feb. 10 La Romana.
Feb. 11 San Pedro de Macoris.
Feb. 13-14 Santo Domingo.
Feb. 15 Santiago.
Feb. 16-17 Espaillat.
Feb. 18 La Vega.
Feb. 20-23 New York.
Feb. 24 Hato Mayor.
Feb. 25 Higuey.
Feb. 27-28 Santo Domingo.
Feb. 29 Santiago.
The January-February offensive is crucial to Lic. Peynado who is rated by Gallup as having 16 percent of the voter, compared to the 42% of Leonel Fernandez of the PLD and the 36% of José Francisco Peña Gómez of the PRD. Jacinto Peynado must make it to second place in order to have a chance at winning the presidency, and he must do it at a time when the PLD is actively wooing the voters who previously supported the PRSC.