Political analyst Orlando Gil, writing in El Siglo, says that the first round of the Ramón Alburquerque vs. Hatuey De Camps battle for the PRD presidential candidacy in 2004 was won by Hatuey de Camps. De Camps took the side of the majority of Dominican institutions and people that do not favor a constitutional reform that could extend the period of the congressmen. Alburquerque and most other PRD senators and deputies stood firmly behind the reform proposal.
