Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s top opposition party didn’t include the deputy Julio Romero in its list of candidates for Senate and deputies disclosed Monday morning for the May 16 elections.

The Santo Domingo province deputy of the PRD party was accused of sexual abuse against minor and for failing to provide child support for his son conceived with Yuilmi Peguero, who became pregnant while still a minor.

But in its ticket the PRD did include Radhamés Ramos Garcia (Chino), convicted of trafficking people across the Haiti border in 2005, and who in 2009 advised women with unwanted pregnancies to come down six steps of stairs on their rump, as a cheap option to going to an abortion clinic.

It also tapped Juan Hubieres, the notorious head of the bus owners’ group Fenatrano, as its candidate for senator of Monte Plata province (east). The strikes led by Hubieres and his group are usually violent and have caused the deaths of several people.

And despite that still Romero seeks reelection as Deputy for Santo Domingo and has political banners in his demarcation, rumors that he would not get the candidacy surfaced in the last few months, in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal revealed by the journalist Alicia Ortega.