Santo Domingo.- With just six months to the presidential elections, a new conflict marring the image and internal unity of Dominican Republic’s only opposition party (PRD) arose yesterday when the head of its Justice Commission and of the Lawyers Guild filed a challenge in the National Magistrate Council (CNM) against the high court candidates Rafael Luciano Pichardo and Mariano German, but was immediately by its senior leaders.

It a statement, PRD president Miguel Vargas and general secretary Orlando Jorge told the CNM that their organization does not oppose any candidate to the high courts that sense the

The challenge filed in the Supreme Court yesterday opposed the designations of the candidates Pichardo in the Superior Electoral Court and German in the Supreme Court.