The Listín Diario, a newspaper that has been said to be very favorable to the ruling government party’s political aspirations of staying in power, gave front page headline coverage to the meeting of several of the promoters of the Frente Patriótico Nacional at the National Palace. The Frente Patriótico was the political alliance between the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano of then President Joaquín Balaguer and the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, which resulted in the PLD winning the 1996 presidential election. News reports say that earlier in the day, President Fernández met with Danilo Medina, former Secretary of the Presidency and today PLD presidential candidate, Juan Temístocles Montás and Francisco Javier García, the PLD campaign director. Then he met for three hours with Manuel Guaroa Liranzo, of the PRSC and Miguel Cocco, of the PLD. Others that were said to be present at the three-hour meeting were José Ramón Báez Figueroa, president of Editora El Golfo (El Siglo newspaper) and presidential advisor for Middle East and African affairs, Namejedin Mansour, El Fituri. The newspaper highlights how the meeting with President Fernández took place only days after Montás and Cocco met with former President Balaguer.
