The PRD has declared "war" on the government, but the PLD says it’s nothing new, that confrontation is part of the culture of the PRD. Temistocles Montás, Technical Secretary of the Presidency, and a PLD party director, said that one has to understand that the PRD will "systematically oppose" all government initiatives. He said the party even did so in the administrations of PRD presidents, such as Antonio Guzmán and Salvador Jorge Blanco, when the party acted like an opposition party. He said that behavior is not going to change. He said that when the PRD conditioned working with the government to the government party’s support of the election of Winston Arnaud as president of the Chamber of Deputies, what they really were asking for was for the PLD to solve their internal problem. Carlos Dore Cabral, director of the unit of information, analsys and strategy of the government concurred that a political party cannot condition the political consensus needed to resolve national problems to the solving of their individual party interests.
