Santo Domingo.– The Force of the People rejected the president’s statements Luis Abinader, who He assured that more than two million people from poverty Between 2020 and 2024describing them as away from reality and one Statistical manipulation.
Red Onofre, Secretary of Social Policies of the party, said that the real reduction does not exceed 1.3 million, and that the rest corresponds to the 2012-2020 period.
Fernando Reyes, Deputy Secretary of the area, He explained that the government changed the methodology To measure poverty, managing to reduce it only in official figures.
Rojas denounced that the official measurement only considers income, ignoring factors such as education, health and housing.
He stressed that the current minimum wage does not cover even half of the National basic basket and that more than 60 % of workers They borrow to cover their basic needs.
In addition, they criticized the denaturation of key institutions such as siuben and adess, accusing the government of managing social programs in a clientele and opaque form.
The party raised concrete demands, such as increasing the minimum wage, adopting the multidimensional poverty index, implementing a National Employment Planand recover the transparency and autonomy of SIUBEN and ADESS.
“The Dominicans do not live with manipulated figures, but of concrete and decent realities,” Onofre Rojas concluded in the name of the people’s force.
