Adriano Miguel Tejada’s back-page commentary in today’s Diario Libre provides what one hopes is a satirical report that says the PPH (the Proyecto Presidencial Hipolito internal PRD campaign to promote the President’s re-election) may at last have found a way of reducing spending on the public payroll. Tejeda suggests that all government employees should simply be asked who they are going to vote for in the upcoming PRD plebiscite. If they support one of the “magnificent seven” – the seven pre-candidates opposed to Mejia’s re-election – they should be dismissed on the spot. This, says Tejada wryly, should come as good news to the opposition and the International Monetary Fund, who are so keen to see the government shrink its public spending. The writer may be contacted at atejada@tricom.net