A survey carried out by the Proyecto para el Apoyo de las Iniciativas Democráticas, a program principally sponsored by the AID and operated under the auspices of the PUCMM and into which the controversial Red de Observadores falls, revealed that 46% of Dominicans consider it is not the role of the Catholic Church to intervene in politics, and 29% said that they should only do so in moments of crisis. Seventy-five percent of the population is not in agreement with the “belligerent and continuing participation of this senior cleric in political activities.” It has been suggested that Cardinal López Rodríguez exercises more in the role of a politician than a member of the Catholic hierarchy. The present Cardinal is said to be the most outspoken of any in the history of the Dominican Republic.