Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, leader of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, and self-appointed candidate for mayor of Santo Domingo, opened his city campaign on Sunday, with a caravan through city streets. Milagros Ortíz Bosch, actual PRD senator for Santo Domingo, who is seeking another run for Congress, and Johnny Ventura, candidate for vice mayor, joined him. The PRD politicians campaigned on issues of the blackouts, lack of potable water in city neighborhoods, and the high cost of living. Peña Gómez, who lost to Dr. Leonel Fernández of the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) in the 1996 presidential elections, said that he would be doing in the municipality a sample of the government he had planned to carry out as president of the Republic.
