SANTO DOMINGO.- "I reiterate that I haven’t bought nor sold one meter pf land to the Dominican State in the governments of the Dominican Revolutionary Party and that denunciation of the PLD is more of the same, result of the desperation before the reelections candidate, president Leonel Fernandez’s adverse situation with the electorate," was the opposition presidential candidate Miguel Vargas’ reaction this morning to the ruling party’s allegation.

He said Fernandez and the PLD have to invent things, such as the allegation’s reiteration yesterday, "because they can’t find how to detain his electoral push and to try to restrain the government’s deterioration and the re-election’s image, fruit of the governmental inefficiency and broken promises."

Senior PLD leader Temístocles Montás, in press conference yesterday, said Vargas made deals with the State when he was Public Works minister in the previous administration.

Vargas said Fernandez uses the PLD to “say those lies which nobody believes. President Fernandez doesn’t talk about accomplishments, but instead makes new promises which in four years didn’t keep."