Several leading Partido Reformista Social Cristiano party members are furious over their exclusion from the official list of candidates of the party to the congressional and municipal elections of 16 May. The party hierarchy (namely President Balaguer and his aides) replaced many politicians that had won the PRSC primaries with their own choices. Hoy newspaper reported that party members in Santo Domingo, Azua, San Francisco de Macorís, Puerto Plata, Castillo, Barahona and Santiago de los Caballeros, among other cities, feel slighted. Party spokesman Donald Reid Cabral said that the discontent is normal and can be expected from politicians who were not favored with the PRSC candidacies.
