President Leonel Fernández traveled to Haiti with congressmen Amable Aristy Castro, president of the Senate, and who was one of only two PRSC senators in the 1998 senate that opens, and Hector Peguero Mendez (PRD-Independencia), president of the Chamber of Deputies. During the visit, President Fernández went out of his way to be photographed and to spend time with deputy Peguero during his visit to Haiti. Peguero lost the PRD internal elections to choose the PRD candidate to preside the Chamber of Deputies when the new session opens in August 1998. This could be a case of divide and conquer. Apparently, President Fernández seeks to lure Peguero Méndez to his side in order to receive favorable votings for different issues in the new Congress. Already, deputy-elect Reinaldo Pared Pérez of the PLD has said that the deputies of that party could vote in favor of Peguero Méndez if he sought the presidency again.
