Eligio Jáquez was appointed campaign chief of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano presidential candidate, Hipólito Mejía. Jáquez, an agronomist, is a member of the Political Committee of the party. He will direct the Comando Nacional de Campaña de Hipólito Mejía. During the PRD governments (1978-1982) he was director of the Banco Agrícola and the Instituto Agrario Dominicano. He aspired to win the PRD Santo Domingo mayor nomination in 1998, but lost.
