Members of the ruling PRD party’s rival factions remain entrenched in their positions today. The President’s camp, the PPH, is hoping for an agreement with those opposed to the President’s re-election, according to leading activist Eligio Jaquez. During a statement in which he announced that the President would set up his campaign headquarters next week, he revealed that there had been communication between Presidential hopeful Rafael “Fello” Subervi Bonilla and the PPH. The anti-re-election activists loyal to ousted party president Hatuey Decamps are still holed up in the PRD headquarters in the capital, and new party president Vicente Sanchez Baret, whose position they do not recognize, has called for them to leave the building peacefully. Meanwhile, Decamps has appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice to overrule the JCE (Central Electoral Board) decision on the legality of President Mejia’s selection as the official PRD candidate in last month’s convention. Jaquez maintains that the JCE is the body authorized to make that decision. Writing in Hoy newspaper, Francisco Alvarez Castellanos rails against the President, whom he describes as a relative newcomer to the PRD, but who “forgets (or perhaps never knew?) that the party has been firmly opposed to re-election since its creation 65 years ago.” After listing all the disasters he attributes to Mejia, from the price rises to the handling of the Baninter debacle, he concludes by saying: “All this due to damned (forgive me, God) politics, and ambitious politicians who despite not being capable of governing, think they are, and take their countries to ruin. I pity them, because history will not forgive them!”