PUERTO PLATA. - The head of Dominican Republic's largest opposition party yesterday called the cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, "the main spokesman of president Leonel Fernandez’s reelection."

PRD party president Ramon Alburquerque said he sometimes, "doesn’t understand Lopez Rodriguez, because the representative of the Holy Father, the Pope, the member of that assembly that is the Synod cannot become a partisan of any political group in the country."

The opposition leader, interviewed on the program Without Limit on channel 10, said Lopez Rodriguez as the ecclesiastical authority cannot continue making statements of the reelection type in the temples, "because we are also Christian and catholic and Lopez cannot use my church to be in favor of a Government".

He said the cardinal sometimes becomes the spokesman and the hardest voice in favor of Fernandez’s reelection, though a Biblical education doesn’t go along with having “such a harsh language."

"It’s not true that to confront the cardinal is a crime because he confronts everybody when he hurls fire and brimstone to justify president Fernandez’s re-election," he said.