Speaking from Miami, the defeated PRSC Presidential pre-candidate Jacinto Peynado declared himself a “free agent” in politics and did not exclude the possibility of supporting a non-PRSC candidate in the forthcoming Presidential elections. He stressed that he would not be backing Eduardo Estrella, who won the PRSC primary election earlier this year, a result that was rejected by Peynado for alleged electoral fraud. He emphatically told Hoy newspaper that he would not work for Estrella’s “illegitimate and inorganic” candidacy. Although he did not explicitly express a preference for either of the two other main parties, he implied sympathy for the PLD’s Leonel Fernandez and made certain criticisms of the current government. Peynado, who served as Vice-President of the Dominican Republic under the late former President, Joaquin Balaguer, and was himself a Presidential candidate in the 1996 elections, is recovering from surgery in the US, but denies he is suffering from cancer.