Hatuey de Camps and his minority faction within the PRD do not support the implementation of the Law of Primaries that was hastily passed by Congress after the PRD lost its bid for re-election in May 2004. De Camps particularly rejected the implementation of the law by the present judges. “If the law is discussed, it should be done after changes have been made in the composition of the JCE,” he said. The former PRD president also criticized the speed with which the electronic vote tender was held and a winner chosen.
De Camps spoke during a visit to PRD headquarters, which, readers may recall, he took over after being ousted from his position of party president. His ejection came at the hands of the PPH faction of the party that imposed former President Hipolito Mejia as the PRD’s presidential candidate in the May 2004 election. De Camps was the sole dissident among those vying for the PRD presidential candidacy to oppose Mejia’s bid for the presidency.
El Caribe newspaper notes that he was accompanied by supporters Hector Aristy, Franklin Franco, Francisco Cano Gonzalez, Felipa Gomez, Henry Mejia, Antonio Marte and Amadeo Lorenzo Ramirez. The two last have been in the press for their involvement with the Plan Renove scandal that was implemented under the Mejia administration.