PRD groups insist on a pact for the convention

PRD leaders say that talks are advancing; they suggest convening a unified Political Commission

SD. While on one side the legal battle continues, groups from the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) say that everything is ready for achieving an agreement ahead of the next ordinary convention and the convening of the Political Commission.

The key that will open the doors for this coming together is the acceptance by the former President Hipolito Mejia to forget about talking about the reinstatement of himself and the other leaders either expelled or suspended.

Tony Peña Guaba reported that the proposals have been sent to the president of the PRD, Miguel Vargas, through the interim president, Peggy Cabral, the widow of Peña Gomez. He said that "all that remains is to get the stones off of the road" in order to reach an agreement.

For his part, Mejia said yesterday that he would release the points they have been agreed to by the sectors and that all he wants to be is a simple party member. "What he (Miguel Vargas) has said is that he is doing everything but our reinstatement, but that is independent of what he does to me does not interest me, I will be a simple member like anyone in the rank and file of the PRD, apart from the fact that I am an Ad Vitam member, this is not my problem I will accept that they carry out the agreements necessary," he stressed.

He insisted on the fact that if the commissioners do not give out the details of the agreement, he will do so. "If they don't release them, I am going to filter it out," he said firmly.

The commissioners Eligio Jaquez, Guido Gomez Mazara, Tony Peña Guaba, Cesar Sanchez and Ana Maria Acevedo met yesterday and they assured reporters that they are fine tuning the last details. Among the points that they proposed are the 15 member organizing commission of the convention, with nine members appointed by Vargas and six by other sectors.

They suggested that the municipal and overseas sectional organizing commissions be composed of eleven members and respecting the institutional direction and that the proportion of the composition be 6 and 5 and directed by the party president in each one of the sections.

Lawyers will appeal sentence before the Constitutional Tribunal

The PRD lawyers, headed by Eduardo Jorge Prats, announced that they will file an appeal before the Constitutional Tribunal regarding the sentence of the Ninth Penal Chamber of the National District which ordered the reinstatement of the secretary for Organization, Geanilda Vasquez. They said that they would only accept whatever was decided by this high court and the previous sentences of the Superior Electoral Tribunal.

Geanilda Vasquez announced yesterday that she will notify the decision of Judge Tania Yunes who ordered her immediate reinstatement and she will convene the media.

She indicated that once the decision is notified, she will request a certification which accredits just who is the secretary of Organization in order to proceed then to the execution of the sentence.