The Partido Revolucionario Dominicano and the Internacional Socialista coordinated a meeting of the Haitian opposition leaders in Barahona. The leading spokesmen of the Haitian opposition met at the Barceló Bahoruco Beach Resort hotel. The president of the PRD, the incumbent party in the DR, Hatuey de Camps and Peggy Cabral, widow of former PRD leader, the late José Francisco Peña Gómez, hosted the event that sought to discuss aspects that would lead to governability in Haiti. Meeting in Barahona were: Leslie Manigat, Gerard Pierre Charles, Evans Paul, Serge Gilles, and Victor Benoit. They require that before any kind of agreement is reached the results of the presidential elections carried out in November 2000 and the congressional and municipal elections carried out in May 2000 be annulled. They want a democratic transition government to be created with the participation of all sectors of Haiti. This transition body would designate an independent electoral court that would call to free election at all levels. During their meeting here they denounced the use of terrorist methods in Haiti for the authorities to annihilate the opposition. De Camps said that the meeting was called not to conspire against president-elect Jean Bertrand Aristide, but to provide a space for dialogue between the opposition and Aristide partisans. The politician says that the political peace in Haiti is of interest to Dominicans because turmoil only increases the immigration of indigent Haitians seeking survival. Earlier, on a television interview with Peggy Cabral, President-elect Aristide announced he was open to talks with the opposition. Aristide is slated to be sworn in as president of Haiti on 7 February. During his first government he was openly antagonistic against the Dominican Republic in Haiti and at international forums.
