PRD presidential candidate Hipólito Mejía over the weekend for the first time during this campaign began to distance himself from the PRSC and its charismatic candidate, former President Joaquín Balaguer. Speaking while campaigning during the Easter holidays in the US, Mejía urged his voters to rally against the PLD and the PRSC. The PRD has coveted PRSC voters, and thus had focused on criticizing the PLD government, while not touching the PRSC. But with Balaguer now becoming a possible second place winner (several leading polls show the decrepit but most sage Dominican politician of all times in second place), PRD strategists have modified their position. News reports say that Mejía, speaking to Dominicans in New York, said that having "amores escondidos" (a hidden affair) with Balaguer has nothing to do with the presidential election of 16 May. He urged his voters to stop both the PLD and the PRSC. Mejía also toured Massachusetts, Florida and New Jersey, speaking out on the same lines of stopping the Reformistas.
