Yesterday, Sunday 23 June, Miguel Vargas accused former President Hipolito Mejia of violating what he called their “preliminary agreement” reached during a meeting held on 3 May in the country residence of former Armed Forces Minister Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez.
In a public letter, “For the knowledge of the country and the great PRD family” Vargas states that this agreement involved Mejia supporting him as the PRD presidential candidate in the 2016 elections. “I did not draw up a proposal for an agreement, but rather it was that such an arrangement was reached almost by itself, with the total agreement of the parties under the premise that former President Mejia in his public speaking, would not aspire to any post if he was pardoned by the PRD and that he would support my candidacy, reserving the eventual vice-presidential nomination for his daughter, Carolina Mejia. A prospect that had been launched by former President Mejia himself, when months before he said that she was his political heir, a fact that was picked up in the local media,” said Vargas.
The PRD president pointed out that they also agreed to a quota for members of his faction in the party leadership, “guaranteed in a convention process that would be transparent and exemplary. Likewise, in an eventual PRD administration, were my candidacy to result in a victory, he would be guaranteed a series of posts in the public administration.”