The candidate to mayor and leader of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD), Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez was scheduled to travel to New York City today for a medical check up after being affected by respiratory problems. Peña Gómez told El Siglo newspaper that he would stay for four or five days in New York. He will be checked by his physicians at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. He said that the activity of the electoral campaign has not affected his health. He admitted though that the internal problems that resulted from the selection of the candidates to the municipal and congressional elections did affect his health. He denied he is suffering from a relapse of pancreatic cancer.
