President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday on the TV program “El Dia”, produced by Huchi Lora and Ramon Nunez, that if his party needs to impose the Ley de Lemas, it will do so, because power is made to be exercised. “If it has to be imposed, it will be imposed, because that is your role when you are in power; to be part of power. Power is exercised. Whoever speaks to the contrary should become a hairdresser’s apprentice,” said President Mejia. His statement was corroborated by aspiring PRD presidential candidate, Rafael Subervi Bonilla, who also repeated: “Power is to be exercised, as other parties have done,” he said. During the same TV appearance, Mejia also said: “This is not to scare anyone. I am not promoting the bill, nor am I in disagreement with it, but I maintain a position of openness, as I have done with everything.” According to reports, the motion to apply the Ley de Lemas comes from the PRD faction that supports the aspirations of Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch. El Caribe explains that from the statements of President Mejia and other party leaders, it would appear that the Dominican Revolutionary Party appears to be willing to use its dominance in the Executive and Legislative branches to impose the law that would allow a party to present more than one candidate in the May election, even despite the clamour of opposition. The PRD has 29 of 32 senators and 72 of the 150 deputies.