With 82% of the vote in, Hip?lito Mej?a was declared winner of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano primary. The spokesman of the organizing commission of the convention, PRD president Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero rejected the threat of impugnment made by second place winner Rafael Suberv? Bonilla. Suberv? alleges a major fraud was made that affected his vote count. Bulletin 6 showed Mej?a had an ample lead of 388,790 votes of 534,059 votes cast. Suberv? Bonilla received 13.99% of the votes, or 73,195 votes. The organizing commission declared Hip?lito Mejia the winner of the primary and the party’s presidential candidate in the 16 May 2000 election. Senator for Santo Domingo, Milagros Ortiz Bosch obtained 30,717 votes, or 5.87%; party secretary general Hatuey Decamps received 23,664 votes or 4.52%; and Senator for Santiago Jos? Rafael Abinader, 6,527 votes for 1.24%. Of 5,473 voting centers, 4,511 or 82.42% were tallied in time for bulletin 6. PRD stats showed that some 1,260,684 party militants were registered to vote. Abstention was 57.64%.
