The presidential candidate of the PRSC in the 1996 elections, Jacinto Peynado, forecast a "poor showing" for the party in the upcoming congressional and municipal elections. Peynado, who did not receive the support of the party in those elections, has not integrated into this year’s electoral campaign. Peynado said that the alliance with the PLD in the past elections has been fatal for the party’s standing today. Furthermore, he criticized the way the party chose its candidates for the congressional and municipal elections. "All they did was take out and put in at whim. Let me repeat that the Reformistas who do not feel tainted by the primaries and its irregularities will have to wait to act in the future, in order to make the PRSC the force it was in the past, because right now it can only arouse pity.
