Medina and Fernandez in another battle for power
Both struggle for leadership of PLD since 2007 convention, when Fernandez won
Abel Guzmán Then
SANTO DOMINGO. In spite of the judicial arguments and those that talk about the defense of democracy, laid out by former President Leonel Fernandez in his speech regarding the constitutional reform, what is really happening at the present time is the dispute over power and political leadership with President Danilo Medina.
Fernandez presented himself as a sacrifice for the causes of the PLD and he warned that the country should prepare itself against "adventurers" and a "XXI century Trujillo" who could perpetuate himself in power.
President Medina has also stressed in several conversations his sacrifices within the PLD, such as in 1996, when he discarded being the vice presidential candidate with Fernandez himself, in order to give way to Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal.
Medina was the traditional craftsman of the PLD structure, as well as the strategic brain of the campaigns which were carried out successfully with the elections of Fernandez and the party.
However the separation between the two began in 2007 when the wounds of the nomination campaign became worse and there was talk that between both men there was a verbal agreement for the 2008 candidate to be Medina.
Fernandez, then the President, won the nomination convention of 6 May 2007 with 72% against Medina who obtained 28%, and after attacking the followers of Leonel in the nomination campaign, he uttered the celebrated phrase that "the State beat me."
Medina did not appear again during the campaign, until 16 May 2008 when he went to vote at table 0175, located at the Maria Auxiliadora School in the Don Bosco sector, and permitted the cameras to show his vote for the PLD.
"I voted and I can't vote for any other color that is not for the PLD," said Medina after a year of silence.
Since then, Medina kept working in the external sector of his presidential project, and then in 2011 he began preaching to the PLD rank and file that now "was his moment."
During this time the "constitutional engineers" began to hold regional assemblies in support of the reelection of Fernandez and they delivered more than 2 million signatures to him in the Sports Palace on 27 March 2011.
When Fernandez decided to give up, on 8 April 2011, on presenting himself once again, although he said that there was an opening, the followers of Leonel threatened to take then first lady Margarita Cedeño, but Fernandez himself advised them that his wife would be an excellent vice presidential candidate and Cedeño withdrew (her presidential aspirations) on 26 April of that year.
From then on Medina walked alone and received the support of Fernandez, making an interim alliance of "three fronts" which won the elections of 2012.
Fernandez presented himself as a sacrifice for the causes of the PLD and he warned that the country should prepare itself against "adventurers" and a "XXI century Trujillo" who could perpetuate himself in power.
President Medina has also stressed in several conversations his sacrifices within the PLD, such as in 1996, when he discarded being the vice presidential candidate with Fernandez himself, in order to give way to Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal.
Medina was the traditional craftsman of the PLD structure, as well as the strategic brain of the campaigns which were carried out successfully with the elections of Fernandez and the party.
However the separation between the two began in 2007 when the wounds of the nomination campaign became worse and there was talk that between both men there was a verbal agreement for the 2008 candidate to be Medina.
Fernandez, then the President, won the nomination convention of 6 May 2007 with 72% against Medina who obtained 28%, and after attacking the followers of Leonel in the nomination campaign, he uttered the celebrated phrase that "the State beat me."
Medina did not appear again during the campaign, until 16 May 2008 when he went to vote at table 0175, located at the Maria Auxiliadora School in the Don Bosco sector, and permitted the cameras to show his vote for the PLD.
"I voted and I can't vote for any other color that is not for the PLD," said Medina after a year of silence.
Since then, Medina kept working in the external sector of his presidential project, and then in 2011 he began preaching to the PLD rank and file that now "was his moment."
During this time the "constitutional engineers" began to hold regional assemblies in support of the reelection of Fernandez and they delivered more than 2 million signatures to him in the Sports Palace on 27 March 2011.
When Fernandez decided to give up, on 8 April 2011, on presenting himself once again, although he said that there was an opening, the followers of Leonel threatened to take then first lady Margarita Cedeño, but Fernandez himself advised them that his wife would be an excellent vice presidential candidate and Cedeño withdrew (her presidential aspirations) on 26 April of that year.
From then on Medina walked alone and received the support of Fernandez, making an interim alliance of "three fronts" which won the elections of 2012.
Abel Guzmán Then
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