Former Santiago senator Jose Rafael Abinader said he would impugn the first primary on grounds that massive fraud took place. He said he detected urns that, when opened prior to the vote, contained ballots favoring Hatuey de Camps, as reported in El Nacional newspaper. El Caribe newspaper says that Abinader estimates the turn-out to have been much less than the 450,000 PRD members the PRD’s organizational secretary, Rafael Gamundi Cordero said participated. “Some 120,000 or 125,000 people voted,” conjectured Abinader, adding that “the rest of the ballots were ‘dirty’ ones placed in the urns.” Abinader said he would request the annulment of the results and reviled the supposition that PRD money was used to favor the candidacy of party president, Hatuey de Camps. He also said that Ortiz Bosch and Subervi ordered their followers to vote in favor of Hatuey de Camps in that first primary.
A second PRD primary is scheduled for Sunday, 14 December to include on the ballots this time the names of President Hipolito Mejia, Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch and former Minister of Tourism Rafael (Fello) Subervi.