Lidio Cadet, secretary general of the Partido de la Liberaci?n Dominicana (PLD), said the ruling party will support the aspirations of the PRSC and instruct their municipal delegates to vote for La Altagracia senator Amable Aristy Castro to the post of secretary general of the Liga Municipal Dominicana. The post is very influential in the use of the 4% of the nation’s budget allotted city halls. Cadet said that the PLD has almost 300 delegates so their support will be decisive to Aristy Castro winning the post, despite the PRD winning the most mayor positions in the municipal election held May 1998. The PRD has threatened to not pass through Congress a single bill submitted by the Fern?ndez government if the PLD supports the PRSC candidate. The PRD is majority in Congress, although there is a PRD dissident group in the Chamber of Deputies. The present secretary general and PRD candidate to the post, Julio Mar??ez was elected in 1994 in similar circumstances. In those elections, the PLD supported his candidacy versus that proposed by the PRSC which had then won the majority of the mayor positions.
