The PRD decided to take advantage of the Haitian issue, and turn it into a rally for “morenos and morenas”, a soft connotation for black people, to vote for the party, as they were being shunned by the PLD. In an advertisement, the PRD states: “To the morenos and morenas of the country. No matter the political affiliation that you may have, the Acuerdo de Santo Domingo invites you to reflect on the fact that only one of the candidates, if he reaches the Presidency, will open the possibilities so your children, if they merit it, can aspire to the presidency, without having to travel the via crucis of abuse, calumny, insults and vexations, as he has suffered them in person. With full conscience, for you, but above all for those that will follow in your footsteps, your sons, mark the electoral ballot under the symbols that will protect your rights to the present, and guarantee a future free of prejudice.”
In answer to the campaign that PRD had taken the word of PLD that black people would be questioned, the PLD published a communiqué in the press stating that in answer to false accusations made by the former, it has given instructions to delegates at electoral tables not to question the votes of any person with a cédula which identifies them as Dominican.