The Acuerdo de Santo Domingo could be discontinued prior to the congressional and municipal elections. The Acuerdo de Santo Domingo was a coalition of political parties that supported the presidential candidacy of Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez in 1996. Now, PRD party aspirants to municipal and congressional posts do not want to yield their candidacies for the support of the minority parties that make up the Acuerdo. In the 1996 presidential elections, the parties did not produce the expected number of votes that would have contributed to a win of the PRD that lost to the coalition of the PLD-PRSC. Today, PRD directors feel they gave up a lot for very little. PRD sectors point to the performance of Lic. Fernando Alvarez Bogaert, a former PRSC politician who aspired to run for president on the PRSC ticket, and who joined the Acuerdo de Santo Domingo when he was offered the vice presidential nomination. Alvarez, nevertheless, only drew 60,000 votes. Other more frustrating experiences were those of former PRSC politician Virgilio Castillo, who gained the senatorial post for the province of Peravia, and that of Antonio Abreu, who won a deputy position in congress by using the alliance with the PRD. Both of these politicians later switched back to support PRSC interests.
