Santo Domingo.- The Presidency’s Chief of staff yesterday railed the opposition PRD party’s presidential candidate, affirming that Hipólito Mejia doesn’t have the moral quality to speak of confronting corruption.

Cesar Pina said however that he prefers to leave the topic for when the electoral campaign starts in earnest, to then make reference to the ex chief executive’s term in office (2000-2004).

He said just the case of ex Army captain Quirino Paulino, extradited to the United States on trafficking 1,300 kilos of cocaine, and would be enough to silence Mejia. “But that’s a debate that we’re going to leave for when the real campaign begins; there’ll be many things with which to respond Mejia and others for the country to remember his term, just the Quirino Paulino case would be enough to shut him up.”

In his candidacy proclamation speech on Sunday, Mejia vowed to confront corruption in government and threatened to jail this one’s corrupt officials.