El Caribe reports that Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Rafael Subervi and Enmanuel Esquea, the three top pre-candidates vying for the PRD Presidential nomination against President Hipolito Mejia, agreed to make use of an average two independent national polls to decide which of the them would make the best PRD candidate in the upcoming 16 May election. The pre-candidates say they will back he or she who obtains the most votes. A PRD primary in which Mejia and his three rivals would supposedly participate has been set for 18 January by Peggy Cabral. Rafael Diaz Filpo, spokesman for the group, told Hoy newspaper that the three, now joined by Hatuey de Camps, would not participate in the 18 January primary organized by Cabral. He explained that the plan is for de Camps, as president of the party, and Rafael Subervi, secretary, to register the unified candidacy at the JCE. The foursome maintain that Mejia does not guarantee the party would retain power, and fear that Mejia’s insistence on running again would split the party.