The Listín Diario reports that Tony Raful, acting president of the PRD says that former President Joaquin Balaguer is not capable of confronting the changes the country needs. He said that the Reformista Party leader does not represent an electoral threat to for his organization. Nevertheless, he said if Balaguer were to become an electoral threat, they would not doubt in radically varying their rapprochement strategy and good relations with the PRSC and begin to combat that party. "If Balaguer starts to advance by taking votes from the PRD, immediately we will change our tactics," he said. Two leading polls show that Balaguer is in second place. The PRD sought the rapprochement seeking the support of PRSC voters that could vote for Hipólito Mejía and not necessarily for the PLD candidate, if the later made it to second place.
