To avoid Partido de la Liberaci?n Dominicana party affiliates from corrupting senators and deputies, the country’s leading opposition party, the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD)’s presiding board is recommending its members interrupt their work at Congress until after the election of the secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League. The PRD says that the government is using its influence to convince delegates at the voting session for the secretary general of the city halls authority to vote for the candidate to be announced by the PLD. The PLD has not confirmed it will be favoring Partido Reformista Social Cristiano candidate Amable Aristy Castro. Rather the party has said it will definitely not support his aspirations if the PRD returns to political talks sponsored by the Catholic Church. If senators and deputies accept the recommendation, there will be no time to pass the Free Trade Agreement the DR has signed with three Central American nations. The Municipal League elections are slated for 26 January.
