2005News

Hatuey De Camps starts new party

If former President Hipolito Mejia had remembered his Latin, he would have said: “Pax vobiscum”, but since neither he nor his followers know Latin, he just said “Go in peace” to former PRD party president and now political adversary, Hatuey De Camps.

Hatuey has just announced the formation of a new party, the Social Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRSD). Diario Libre broke the news on Saturday, and now the PRD party has split for a third time. The first time was when Juan Bosch split off and formed the PLD party based upon more Leninist party lines. Then Jacobo Majluta founded the PRI party in a dispute over platform issues. Now, Hatuey De Camps, a prominent member of the PRD party for nearly 40 years-ever since his days as a student leader-has decided that he must establish a new party based upon Social Democrat policies and following the ideals of Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, the late PRD legendary leader. The new party will take the ox, one of the PRD symbols as its symbol, and fly a red, white and blue flag. During his televised speech, De Camps established his differences with Hipolito Mejia and the current PRD leadership. The Diario Libre points out that De Camps insisted that he and his followers are members of the PRD party and that his new party is “provisional” until the PRD is “exorcized and recovering” from those that kidnapped the party.