SN: How do you respond to the view that your selection was undemocratic, seeing that everybody withdrew and then you were the only candidate left?
DR: Our party had always been the most democratic party in the country. Every position in our party is an elected position. On this question of the presidential candidate, the three colleagues withdrew. I think fundamentally they withdrew because I think they understood very well that… I had probably a lot of support both on the level of the ground and in the leadership of the party. So, I think what they did was very noble because it was in the interest of the party and again it was also in the interest of our country because the history of this country shows that we move forward when the PPP and the PPP/Civic government is in office.
SN: Some people have said that you have never really run a major public corporation or have any
