The confrontation between national politicians has relegated or removed from the press the issue of the Haitian crisis and its impact on the country, an issue that is crucial for the control of migration and social peace.
This despite the fact that President Luis Abinader and former presidents Leonel Fernández, Danilo Medina and Hipólito Mejía signed a document a few weeks ago where they committed to drawing the attention of the international community, that has not happened.
The Modern Revolutionary Parties (PRM), People’s Force (FP) and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) are engaged in a discussion on issues related to the management of the economy, blackouts and who has been most efficient in the exercise of power.
Last Monday, the PLD accused the Government of increasing the public debt by US$34 billion, data that the FP also reaffirmed, a statement that President Luis Abinader responded that same day, alleging that 80% of the loans have been to honor economic commitments of his PLD predecessors.
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In the end, what it is about is a power struggle, while the ruling party seeks to maintain its popularity, the opposition plays its game of trying to “swim in troubled waters.”
“We have to tell things as they are, because lies do not go very far and friends of the opposition sometimes play with absolute numbers, obviously, with absolute numbers the last Government will always be greater than the others,” the president expressed in La Semanal con la Prensa last Monday.
First meeting
Initially, on May 14, the head of state and three former presidents met at the Ministry of Defense with a single agenda: the Haitian crisis and its repercussions in the Dominican Republic.
After that, Abinader, Fernández, Medina and Mejía agreed that the issue be discussed in the Economic and Social Council (CES), a constitutional body that began work in that direction on June 23. Different sectors participated in the discussion.
In its final report, the CES warned that the Haitian crisis represented a direct threat to the country’s governability, security and social cohesion.
“The migratory flow has multiple aspects: on the one hand, the contribution of labor to strategic productive sectors; on the other, the negative impacts on governance, security and social cohesion,” the report indicates.
The CES text includes 26 lines of action and a total of 151 proposals, condensing and integrating the agreements reached in this process.
Points
The points were agreed upon and approved in the six thematic tables: migration, bilateral trade, development of border communities, national security, international relations and labor issues.
In addition to political actors, the dialogue process brought together actors from the business, labor, social and academic sectors, where all reaffirmed their social commitment.
UN
Late last month, the United Nations Security Council approved a broader anti-gang force, made up of police and soldiers from around the world, to try to put an end to murders, rapes and kidnappings by criminal groups. In the meantime, gangs continue to gain ground in Haiti.
