The Junta Central Electoral recommended that politicians discontinue the practice of airing or publishing advertisements or propaganda that presents the image or voice of presidential candidates in a negative way. The JCE recommends that political parties avoid the use of slanderous language that may attempt against the honor of any candidate. It also urged politicians to avoid using language that may incite followers to violence. The electoral court judges responded this way to a PRD request that the JCE order the PLD to suspend a spot that is a collection of actual appearances of PRD candidate, Hipólito Mejía. PLD strategist Temístocles Montás said that the spots were intended to show the outspoken PRD candidate as he is: "arrogant, aggressive, lacking moderation, his lack of grasp of national problems, his lack of vision." The PRD has been publishing a series of cartoons in the press, lampooning the present Fernández administration and its candidate, Danilo Medina for offering something to everyone. The PLD campaign spots are a last resort of the PLD to take votes away from Mejía who leads in all the major polls and is definitely the man to beat.
