News reports indicate that former Vice-President Jacinto Peynado has chosen to stay out of the election campaign unless there is a second round. Peynado returned to the DR after a nine-month stay in Miami for health reasons. Tacito Perdomo, of his political team, said that Peynado has chosen not to support any of the contenders in the first round of voting. Peynado has not thrown his support behind his PRSC party’s candidate, Eduardo Estrella, whom he has accused of fraud in the primaries.