PRD President Ramon Alburquerque defended Deputy Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia’s candidacy yesterday, as reported in El Caribe. Ramos Garcia, who served 18 months in prison for smuggling illegal Asian immigrants across the Haitian border, wants to run for Senator of La Vega Province. According to Alburquerque, Ramos served time in a correctional matter and neither the Constitution nor any other legal body can stop him from running. Thus, the right to be a candidate cannot be denied to somebody with so many followers.