President Leonel Fernandez ordered a halt to the return of heavy equipment that had been decreed by the Ministry of the Interior and the Police. The Presidential Press Office said that representatives of the Executive Branch would await the results of a dialogue being held between a governmental commission and the mayors of the various municipalities involved. These municipalities were given the use of heavy equipment by the former PRD administration shortly before the change of government. Presidential Minister Danilo Medina and PLD Secretary General Reinaldo Pared Perez are being assisted by Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, who agreed to mediate this conflict. The issue began when Interior and Police Minister Franklin Almeyda ordered the transfer of heavy equipment and other machinery from the mainly PRD-run municipal governments back to the PLD authorities.