As reported in El Caribe newspaper, former President Leonel Fernandez, who most polls show garnering more than 60% of voter support, has accused the PPH (PRD faction that supports the re-election of President Hipolito Mejia) of purposely fostering conditions to impose a dictatorship on the country. “In their attempt to create the foundation of a dictatorship in this country, they started with the modification, by force, bribery and corruption in Congress of the Republic’s Constitution,” said Fernandez, first referring to the amendment to the Constitution made in July 2002 to allow re-election. He then mentioned the plan to control the Central Electoral Board (with a new panel of judges elected by the PRD-majority Senate), followed by the advent of the Ley de Lemas. Tomorrow, they will want to change the members of the Supreme Court of Justice, he mused, during what is regarded as his first speech since the opening of the presidential election campaign. “The people have said ‘no’ to the PPH and the PRD,” he concluded at the end of an enthusiastic and substantial crowd of his followers paraded through low-income barrios of the northern part of the capital city.