Santiago. – The President of the National Central of Transport Workers (CNTT), Juan Marte, condemned the attempt by some sectors of power to try to “manufacture” files for the popular leaders, drivers and religious who have risen up against the hikes of the electricity rate in the Sabana Church municipalityfrom the city of Santiago.
In this sense, Marte considered that the Deputy Attorney General’s Office for the Electric System (PGASE), does a disservice to freedom and the Constitutional right that citizens have to demonstrate and rise up by any means within their reach, against the abuses of those who “rob and mistreat the people,” he said.
Likewise, the carrier indicated that the submission to the community leader Jonathan Primitivo Guzmán Vargas, and the excessive force of some law enforcement officers in the Cibao region “foreshadow past times and take us back to the time of the caves,” said Juan Marte.
The president of the CNTT also specified that the PGASE should bring to justice those who charge energy to the Dominican State with plants turned off and those who within Edenorte gobble up part of the Nation’s budget in superfluous expenses and parasitic payroll.
Juan Marte deplored “it is sad and unfortunate that these things are happening in the 21st century, and in a full-fledged civilian and democratic government such as the one headed by President Luis Abinader, he questioned.
Similarly, he stated that these events send a negative signal for the legitimate right of citizens to peaceful protest and a wrong action that lacerates democracy in the Dominican Republic.
