Jose Joaquin Puello says he will not accept the presidency of the PRD
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SANTO DOMINGO. The neurosurgeon and former vice-presidential candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Jose Joaquin Puello, said yesterday that he would not accept the presidency of the party as one of the proposals to achieve a pact of unity between the two sectors had suggested.
"Under no concept, I do not accept this, remember Abel, that what I am is a doctor, what I do is save lives, and I am a friend of both men (Hipolito and Miguel) and I wanted to see if they would come to an agreement but from there to the presidency of the PRD, there are a lot of people with more merits than I have in the party, besides they are PRD members and I am not even registered in the party," he said.
Puello indicated in addition that among the solutions for the PRD crisis, it has been suggested that there be a convention agreed to by the two sectors in conflict, which would be endorsed by the rank and file in a voting process.
"This is what was proposed ( an agreed upon convention) but there is no news regarding this, at least I have not heard anything, and I have not had any contacts with either Hipolito or with Miguel," he said. He stressed that he has no intention to run this opposition party.
Puello said that many of the ranking party members in "good faith" have been in the party for more than 40 years and they aspire to lead the party and have the conditions to be able to do so.
He stressed that he has no other interest than that of mediating between a childhood friend such as Hipolito Mejia and a friend such as the PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado, for whom he was the vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 presidential elections.
Last Friday, 3 May, former President Mejia and the PRD president lunched together in the country home of the former Minister of the Armed Forces, Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez, and they said that after an hour of conversations they renewed their personal relations, but they did not go forward regarding an internal political agreement.
After this meeting Vargas talked with Cesar Sanchez, who works as a liaison with Mejia, but nothing has been reported publically regarding on what basis they would discuss a political agreement that Mejia calls "dividing up the tortilla."
"Under no concept, I do not accept this, remember Abel, that what I am is a doctor, what I do is save lives, and I am a friend of both men (Hipolito and Miguel) and I wanted to see if they would come to an agreement but from there to the presidency of the PRD, there are a lot of people with more merits than I have in the party, besides they are PRD members and I am not even registered in the party," he said.
Puello indicated in addition that among the solutions for the PRD crisis, it has been suggested that there be a convention agreed to by the two sectors in conflict, which would be endorsed by the rank and file in a voting process.
"This is what was proposed ( an agreed upon convention) but there is no news regarding this, at least I have not heard anything, and I have not had any contacts with either Hipolito or with Miguel," he said. He stressed that he has no intention to run this opposition party.
Puello said that many of the ranking party members in "good faith" have been in the party for more than 40 years and they aspire to lead the party and have the conditions to be able to do so.
He stressed that he has no other interest than that of mediating between a childhood friend such as Hipolito Mejia and a friend such as the PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado, for whom he was the vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 presidential elections.
Last Friday, 3 May, former President Mejia and the PRD president lunched together in the country home of the former Minister of the Armed Forces, Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez, and they said that after an hour of conversations they renewed their personal relations, but they did not go forward regarding an internal political agreement.
After this meeting Vargas talked with Cesar Sanchez, who works as a liaison with Mejia, but nothing has been reported publically regarding on what basis they would discuss a political agreement that Mejia calls "dividing up the tortilla."
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