Two days before the end of the deadline for the registrations for the PRD’s 30th ordinary convention, members of the divided opposition party are once again breathing the air of sanctions and expulsions that sparked the internal war early last year. PRD president Miguel Vargas and the president of the party’s control commission have classified the assembly of an opposition front by the PRD sectors that have been at each other’s throats over the leadership of the party as insubordination in violation of the statutes. PRD disciplinary council president Rafael Vasquez said that this party organ would be active as always to process what the national prosecutor and the control commission submit. These are the party agencies that should proceed to point out any violation of the statutes.
Former President Hipolito Mejia’s spokesman, Hector Guzman, attributed the criticisms by Vargas regarding the front of opposing organizations to the fact that he does not have the capacity to bring together the political and social forces such as those represented in the so-called “Convergence.” He accused Vargas of being the first to violate the statutes because although he has reached the end of his term as PRD president, he has refused to step down. “Miguel Vargas has no political standing to speak of discipline or of the statutes because he signed a pact with Leonel Fernandez outside of the party,” he said. He also reproached the fact that Vargas had obtained a loan from the Banco de Reservas in the middle of the election campaign in which he did not support his own party’s presidential candidate.