Danilo-Zorrilla Ozuna Covenant has greater symbolic value

The Alliance between the LDP and the civic renewal party of Maj. Gen. (r) Jorge Radhamés Zorrilla Ozuna, with the endorsement of President Fernandez and presidential candidate Danilo Medina is one sign of how the struggle between the so-called transfuguismo and negative campaign will be developed.

Perhaps the surprise wasn't that Maj. Gen. in passive service, head of the in during the regime of former President Mejía the step, but that Dr. Fernández signed the Pact of accession and adopt the pomp with which carried out the event, with the assistance of much of the staff of his party.

It is believed that Zorrilla Ozuna does not really represent a wealth of votes that could help to Medina to conquer the presidential on May 20. Its value is rather symbolic, because it leads a military sector whose militancy was associated with the historic leader of the PRD, Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez.

To switch to the Government side, u000aMaj. Gen., confessed politician long before his retirement at the end of the regime of Mejía (2000-2004), weakened the former army of the candidate front Mejía and, incidentally, he anticipated that his rival in the armed forces, lieutenant general (r), Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez, could do the same.

Despite everything and seem to have had their eggs in the basket of Mejía, Zorrilla Ozuna never forgave him not so to appoint Secretary of armed forces in 2002, when the term of two years of Soto Jiménez was fulfilled. It is said that the Decree was in draft form but Soto moved here and in Washington, D.C., to keep to.

The only thing that could compare with the coup just give Fernandez, Medina and his party, is the candidate of the PRD to materialize the alleged threats that his campaign will be integrated soon activist Luis Incháustegui and Taíno Gautreaux, a peledeísta of unpredictable behavior, now resigning of the u000aLDP.

Negative campaign
presidential candidate's recent appeal Mejía that the electoral fight develops without the dominance of campaign dirty, expresses deep concern because if such a thing occur it would be most affected, unless you have to respond with full saddlebags, as has Medina.

Former President Mejía is already a victim of the negative campaign, which so far has failed to be dirty, but nobody knows what course will continue in the upcoming independent surveys and LDP and PRD parties show the evolution of the intentions of voting.

Between the strategists of the presidential candidate of the LDP has the impression that the negative campaign against Mejía would be one of the ways of diminishing the popularity that the former ruler began its campaign by polls and other indicators of what was said in the street.

The basis of that negative campaign is u000athe past of former President Mejía and the misfortunes that occurred during his four years (2000-2004), in which several banks collapsed, the currency collapsed and allegedly more than one million people were unemployed. After coming to power the LDP, the currency and macroeconomics is recovered and inflation, which would have reached 50 per cent, were arrested.

One of the advantages of Medina is turned away good early of the reelection of Dr. Fernández regime, in which he was Secretary of the Presidency. Mejía attacks have been by both the current ruler, who has never replied directly.

The negative campaign will be inevitable. It is present now in primary elections of the United States Republican party, which seeks to choose who will be the contender for President Barack Obama, aspiring reelection.

Unequal fight
Mejía rejected insofar as he has liability in the bank failures, the collapse of u000athe currency up to 60 per 1 and inflation. His strategists say that as a reason for campaign has had some success but not as well as reality.

The fight has become uneven strategists since de Mejía have overlooked mistakes of his opponents, as it was the notice of the Senator of San Cristóbal, Tommy Gallant, in the sense that after the elections would put into force a new fiscal reform, statement which later sought to clarify.

Galán assertion not fueled the negative campaign. The strategists of the former President Mejía cannot employ negative against Medina campaign as the worst might say about him is that a possible regime would be "more of the same". Medina "cured in health" very early by proclaiming that he would "continue what is right, correct what is wrong and do what was never made".

The weight of the peledeísta regime and its enormous machinery of advertising and propaganda is incomparable with the of u000aMejía, of limited resources and so far has no support from a great cover of campaign, the President, Miguel Vargas Maldonado, recess for all purposes of the present Lydia

When days ago the escort of the former President zarandeó to two journalists in separate activities, the images were past again and again adversaries television programs, medium whereby the majority of the citizens hear news. Some damage could have these deployed woes.

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