On Thursday, 28 March, Hoy headlined “Va o no va a campaña? JB sólo dice “je, je, je” mientras Jacinto espera.” While the President is expected to accompany Jacinto and Maribel, his runnning mate, on their campaign tour to Santiago this weekend, he broke into a cynical laugh when journalists asked him if they would be seeing him at the planned events. In political conversations, more and more Dominicans say that Jacinto, who has shined on his own, should forget about Dr Balaguer supporting him. The president in function of the PRSC, Donald Reid Cabral, insisted that Dr Balaguer would join the campaign.