Hatuey Decamps was declared the winner of last weekend’s PRD convention, in which he contested the pre-Presidential ticket with Ramon Alburquerque and Jose Rafael Abinader. While Decamps obtained 63.45% of the 389,605 votes cast on Sunday, his opponents are alleging “massive fraud”. Nonetheless, it appears that Decamps will be proclaimed the official PRD candidate at a ceremony on Sunday. That same day will see a second PRD party convention, in which the remaining pre-candidates President Hipolito Mejia, Rafael “Fello” Subervi Bonilla, Milagros Ortiz Bosch and Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero will also make their bids for Presidential candidacy. Once a winner is declared, the thorny issue will be directed to the Central Electoral Board (JCE), which will have to decide which of the two candidates can run under the PRD banner. Former Foreign Minister Hugo Tolentino Dipp has come out in favor of Milagros Ortiz Bosch in a column in Listin Diario newspaper, saying that she was the only one capable of finding solutions to the nation’s chief problems. Tolentino Dipp said he hoped the PRD would fight next year’s Presidential election as a united front, but that in the current circumstances President Mejia had “totally divided the party.” This division would intensify should Mejia win this weekend’s vote, said Tolentino Dipp, who resigned his post as foreign minister earlier this year because of his opposition to the President’s support for United States policy in Iraq.