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The Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) gave a press conference on Friday, 3 May to announce a supposed conspiracy against the life of its presidential candidate, José Francisco Peña Gómez. The previous day, Dr Peña Gómez himself had condemned the existence of an alleged plan to hinder the election, by provoking armed confrontations between members of …

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Santo Domingo’s Senator, Milagros Ortiz Bosch, of the PRD, upon returning from the press conference, stopped a truck with official plates containing personnel that had been instructed to remove all the candidates political posters. As proof of what she called the obstruction of the PRD’s campaign, she retained the vehicle’s number plate. It turned out …

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President Balaguer continued on his silent campaign trail principally in the company of Maribel Gassó, vice presidential candidate for the PRSC, and was received enthusiastically by throngs of Reformistas. (The President has chosen not to speak to the press at the rallies.) Maribel, politically an unknown previous to her selection, has now become a popular …

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José Francisco Peña Gómez, on his radio program Tribuna Democrática, and on a full page in the Listín Diario on Saturday, 4 May says that he believes that sectors related to the anillo palaciego, or inner circle of the Presidency, are interested in inciting the differences between the PLD and the PRD in order to …

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In his talk on Tribuna Democrática, José Francisco Peña Gómez also had strong words against the PLD for taking up the racist campaign tactics used by the PRSC in the last election. “For us it is inconceivable that a party so committed to the democratic struggle of the country, as is the Liberación Dominicana, presided …

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Maribel Gasso, vice presidential candidate for the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano, said that the true polls are the large crowds that President Joaquín Balaguer is attracting with his campaign tours throughout the country. She said that the PRSC has made a big comeback in the last few weeks and is now near the front runners …

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Jacinto Peynado promised that if he wins the election he will work to create a modern, harmonious state, that will be totally ethical so that its institutions may function properly. He said that there will be electricity, taxes will be collected, and that there will be more opportunities for business and more jobs. The government …

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Doctor Leonel Fernández, the presidential candidate of the PLD, has asked that Dr Julio Madrazo, assistant to the secretary general of the OAS, be excluded from anything concerning the Dominican elections. He considers that anybody who admits, even on a personal level, to being partisan to a particular political candidate should not be involved in …

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The vice presidential candidate for the PRD-Acuerdo de Santo Domingo, Fernando Alvarez Bogaert considers that President Balaguer has begun to campaign too late and that Jacinto Peynado was hurt by the past actions and words of the President. While he said that the campaigning of President Balaguer could produce an increase in those favoring Jacinto …

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President Balaguer met early this week, with the former President of Venezuela Luis Herrera Campins. Mr Herrera Campins visited in his position as president of the Organizacion Demócrata Cristiana of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Venezuelan politician emphasized the principal of non-intervention in the internal affairs of a country as one of the fundamental …

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