The president of the Social Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRSD), Hatuey De Camps has said that he is open to negotiating with President Leonel Fernandez with a view to achieving a concentration of democratic forces for the improvement of the quality of life in the country. Listin Diario reports that De Camps has criticized the conditions in which the PRSC formed an alliance with the PRD, which he broke away from earlier this year.
According to El Caribe, President Fernandez’s statements about the creation of a national progressive block received diverse reactions among PRD and PRSC leaders and lawmakers. Former President Hipolito Mejia gave little importance to the President’s call and defined it as a “reactionary front”. He believes that PRSD support for the PLD would be insignificant. PRD Secretary General Orlando Jorge Mera said the President’s statements show he is desperate. In Congress, Deputy Marino Collante recalled that Fernandez was the first to have negotiated with the PRSC. Deputy Reyes Ozuna also described the President’s statements as a desperate reaction to the PRD – PRSC alliance.