Santo Domingo. – While tensions from the raging dispute for internal posts continue in the country’s biggest opposition party PRD, and the once powerful but now skeletal PRSC hangs on to the hopes of reaching government posts to survive, the ruling PLD appears to increasingly enjoy the trimmings of being in power.

And as PRSC leader Humberto Salazar on Wednesday called on all his colleagues who seek candidacies for the next elections to launch their political campaigns and no await a decision on the possible alliance with the PLD, the Legal Adviser during Hipolito Mejia’s Presidency, Guido Gomez Mazara, warned that his failure to reach the PRD’s General Secretary post may “hail a defeat of Miguel Vargas Maldonado in the 2012 elections.”

Mazara and Jose Frank Peña Guaba, who was also defeated in his bid for the PRD’s Organization Secretary post, have vowed to take their dispute to any jurisdiction wiling to hear their case.

Salazar meanwhile said the alliance with the PLD is currently “in the air” and despite that the talks to define the process were slated to conclude on November 10, they’ve yet to materialize. “While there’s no answer and transparency a comparative advantage is being given to the parties which compete with us for the same electoral market, because our leaders don’t know what to do at this moment.”

He said of the alliance must be discussed with PRSC president Carlos Morales the sooner the better, as a quick response must be given to its rank and file. “The engineer Morales and the party leaders have the responsibility of satisfying almost 6,000 people on their shoulders,” he said in a interview on Channel 9.

All this while the head of the PLD, president Leonel Fernandez enjoys a film festival.