When President Leonel Fernandez proposed a pact among the major political parties that would allow him and his team to continue their plans for development and eliminate job firings due to political allegiances, it made sense. Now the Reformist Party (PRSC) has accepted the deal and the PRD, with former President Hipolito Mejia as spokesman, has accepted the pact, but with certain conditions, according to the Diario Libre.
The paper says that Mejia and Rafael Subervi warned that in order to achieve an agreement of this type, the chief executive must give out signs of a real concerted effort on his part. Mejia emphasized that in order for his party to take part in the talks proposed by Fernandez, the President had to promise not to use the new dialogue in an attempt to split the PRD, now suffering an internal crisis.
Federico Antun Battle, the spokesperson for the PRSC told reporters from El Caribe that his party had already asked for such a meeting and he felt “We have to begin somewhere.”