Former President Hipolito Mejia hosted a lunch yesterday at his home in San Cristobal for PRD party leaders. According to the report in Hoy newspaper, those invited were “front-line” PRD members with close ties to the Mejia administration that left office last August. The cited aim of the meeting was to motivate the party’s leadership and support those who will be seeking official posts at the party convention in March. Eligio Jaquez, the director of Mejia’s election campaign, said that the attendees consisted of 34 deputies, approximately 20 senators, all provincial party leaders, such fundamental figures as Johnny Morales, Guido Gomez Mazara, Cesar Sanchez, Rafael Calderon, Alberto Atallah and others, all members of Mejia’s PPH party faction. The Listin Diario reports that Mejia instructed his followers to concentrate their energies and economic support on realizing their objectives at the upcoming party convention.
The PRD has been prone to recent conflict and infighting. A recent survey conducted within the party revealed that the vast majority see a change of leadership as their number-one priority.