Santo Domingo.-Given the concerns by the institutions that were achepal after Decree 461-25, with which President Luis Abinader ordered changes in his cabinet, the president said that these designations will be completed in the next few days.
“Some other changes of different kinds will continue to be made in the next two or three days, but there must be a director in each of those positions that are still free,” Abinader said during his participation in the weekly with the press.
Among the institutions that currently do not have authorities are the Program of Essential and Central Medicines of Logistic Support (PROMESE/CAL), the National Social Security Council (CNSS), the National Council of the Aging Person (CONAPE) and the Student Transportation System (Bring).
Another of the issues addressed in the meeting was the recent failure in the Punta Catalina Thermoelectric Central 1. In this regard, the President of the Unified Council of the Electricity Distributor companies (CUED), Celso Marranzini, explained that Sargazo’s massive arrival has become a direct threat to electricity generation.
He explained that, after two years without receiving large volumes of seaweed due to the passage of Hurricane Erin, the sargazo accumulated again on the coasts, obstructing the cooling systems of the plant, which forced it to temporarily remove it from operation.
The subway
Abinader also reported that in the first week of September it will participate in one of the tests that are being carried out in line 2C of the Santo Domingo Metro and assured that as of February 2026 users can use this service in a normal way.
On the criticisms made by the opposition about the work, President Abinader said he will invite them to accompany them to the evidence in which he will be present.
“The opposition always criticizes everything, talks about everything, and that is part of them. If in the end then it is wrong, because what the government has said from the beginning because it is being fulfilled. And I will invite you to the friends of the opposition to accompany me in the first test,” said the president.
Building
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The Government has identified the building where the new Ministry of Justice will house, whose opening is scheduled for January. But that this has a whole process that will be executed gradually.
