Diario Libre informs that Cesar Mella, the well-known psychiatrist who is also the medical advisor to the President (but who is politically partial to Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch), had scheduled a conference in El Seibo as part of Ortiz Bosch’s campaign. When the popular Mella arrived to speak in the eastern city of El Seibo, he noticed the hall was empty. According to the Diario Libre, the campaign staff of the PPH (the promotional arm of President Hipolito Mejia) had apparently arrived there earlier, passing by the hall with container trucks loaded with wood planks and zinc. The PRD supporters of the Ortiz Bosch camp took off to where the construction materials would be distributed. Diario Libre comments that the wood planks and zinc technique worked well in the 2002 congressional election as well, when the PPH groups imposed their candidacies. Alfredo Freites commented on his radio talk show this morning that the materials were imported through a commercial bank loan from Brazil taken out by the government in the name of social programs. El Caribe newspaper recently reported on a great amount of containers parked at the Port of Haina.