Frank Marino Hernández, a sociologist, in an interview with Carmen Imbert Brugal from the Hoy newspaper, considered the choice of Maribel Gassó as vice president on the PRSC ticket to be positive, but not enough to contain the avalanche moving towards José Francisco Peña Gómez. He feels that the participation of the vice presidential candidate for the PRSC, because of her personal qualities and merits, will be a permanent contribution to Dominican politics even if the party does not win. He believes that the PRSC is owned by Dr Balaguer, in the same way the PLD was owned by Juan Bosch, with the difference that “Bosch handed in the title to the property. “