Ex-mayor of Santo Domingo, Rafael Suberví Bonilla, made it official on Friday: a team of his advisors and followers paid the RD$100,000 fee and registered him as an official contender for the Dominican Revolutionary Party’s (PRD) standard-bearer in the next presidential elections. He joins the ranks of Milagros Ortiz Bosch, the National Districtís Senator, Hipólito Mejía, a former Minister of Agriculture, Hatuey Decamps, the Secretary-General of PRD, and José Rafael Abinader, who has run for president in the past under another party’s banner. PRD will hold its national convention next February, when it will decide who will be the partyís candidate for president in the year 2000. Suberví served as mayor 1994-98, and during his final months in office made clear his presidential ambitions.
