The presidential candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, Hipólito Mejía says that the little awareness on behalf of President Leonel Fernández of the term "pichirrí," that describes the tail of the chicken, is a demonstration that the President has lost contact with the poor in the Dominican Republic. President Fernández said in an interview with CBS recently that it would be sad that the country, that is initiating a phase of high technology, fell in the hands of people that speak of "grabbing the chicken by the tail (pichirrí)." Mejía used the term when he referred to his opponent, Danilo Medina, of the PLD, saying that he had him "agarrado por el pichirrí." Mejía responded to the President’s comment, saying that President Fernández is living in the 18th century, pointing out that the Fernández administration has subject the population to a state of extreme poverty. Mejía said he would not vary his language. He says he uses terms that the Dominican people can understand. He commented that Professor Juan Bosch, the founder of the PLD, used popular terms with good results.
