In addition to naming their electoral candidate during the Saturday XX National Special Convention of the PRD, the party delegates also removed Hatuey Decamps from the party presidency, replacing him with Vicente Sanchez Baret, the director of the Customs Department. During the Saturday event, the convention authorized former President Salvador Jorge Blanco to register Sanchez Baret’s appointment before the JCE. The delegates of the party designated Sanchez Baret, President Mejia and former President Jorge Blanco to make a deal with any other PRD member in case Congress passes the Ley de Lemas bill that would reform electoral law to allow multiple candidacies from a single party. El Caribe newspaper points out that previously former President Jorge Blanco had shunned a high-profile role within the party after being sentenced for corruption in office (1982-1986). Mejia pardoned the sentence at the start of his own presidency.