Senator re-elect for Santo Domingo, Milagros Ortíz Bosch is the favorite to obtain the presidential candidacy of the PRD in year 2000, 43 of every 100 citizens responded to a Hamilton & Staff poll commissioned by Hoy newspaper. Ortíz leads Hipólito Mejía by 22 points. Mejía had proposed that she be his vice presidential candidate in the year 2000 elections. Hatuey Decamps is third, with 9% of the preferences. Other contenders for running for president on the PRD ticket are Santo Domingo Mayor Rafael Suberví Bonilla, now congressman-elect for Barahona, and Ramón Alburquerque, senator for Monte Plata and PRD candidate to preside the Senate from 1998-2002. Suberví and Alburquerque tied with 6 of the favor of voters. The survey took place 5 to 12 June throughout the country.
