Vice President Jaime David Fernández criticized the political campaign carried out by Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, candidate for mayor of Santo Domingo on the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) ticket. He said that instead of focusing on national issues, as if he were running for president, Peña should concentrate on telling Santo Domingo city voters what he will do for the city if he is elected mayor. "He is speaking as if he were running for president, not as a candidate to mayor of the capital city," said Vice President Fernández. Peña Gómez, a former mayor of Santo Domingo, was presidential candidate for the PRD in the 1996 presidential election. He was the candidate who won the most votes in the first round. He lost the election when the PRSC allied with the PLD in the second round. At the present time, the Gallup poll shows he is the most likely to become the next mayor of Santo Domingo. Against him is that he suffers from cancer.
