Santo Domingo.- The doctor Rafael Alburquerquewho in his capacity as vice president of the Republic coordinated andl Social Policy Cabinet qwho implemented the social assistance programs in the second presidential term of Leonel Fernandezdenounced that the current government has dismantled the controls that these programs had and has turned them into a business.
Albuquerque He regretted that these programs had been totally distortedbecause there were three institutions thatand they were not to provide jobs, but rather they took into account the recommendations made by the technicians.
There was a Cabinet that directed the programs, but it was not the one who selected the beneficiaries.
“That’s what the Siuben was for,This is the Single Beneficiary System, which was the one that sought out poor households and did so through welfare institutions. civil society such as Catholic, evangelical and Adventist churches “That, using a form that was prepared for them, they were in charge of carrying out the poverty census,” the opposition leader recalled when interviewed on the D’AGENDA program.
He added that he had the advice of the ECLAC and the experience of Brazil, and when the churches and civil society selected the names of poor people, they gave them to the program; there came the Administration of Social Subsidies (ADEES), who provided the money and had contact with the businesses, which was the place where the T could be usedSolidarity card.
He stressed that the Solidarity Card had the name, surname and ID number of the beneficiarywhich implies that could not be transferable to anyone, and when a colmadero For one reason or another, if you retained one of those cards, you were immediately left out of the program, because you always worked with grocery stores in poor neighborhoods.
“The program was guaranteed, and when any media outlet asked who the beneficiaries were, they were given the complete list so that they could verify the transparency with which these programs were managed,” said Alburquerque.
He warned that now there are a series of concerns about the things that are happening and that the press has reported it: “Lost cards that suddenly appeared in a supermarket a person changing 40 cards, because they are bearer cards, “They don’t have a name, ID or anything.”
“ADEES disappeared, now Siuben was sent to the vice ministry of economy, it no longer belongs to social programs, what control is there? None, and it is the case that there are many people who have the Supérate card and do not need it; simply, “That has become a business,” lashed out the former vice president of the Republic.
It is a “theft” not to index workers’ salaries as established by the Tax Code
For the learnedr Rafael Alburquerqueformer Minister of Labor and member of the Political Directorate of the People’s Force, the fact of not indexing the salaries of workers as established by the Tax Code constitutes theft.
What does indexing mean? “That they are freeing me from Income Tax based on what is accumulating in the cost of living, that is, as inflation rises, my salary reaches me less, so I have to be indexed, that is, freeing me from a section of Income Tax,” explained the former vice president of the Republic.
Albuquerque warned that “not doing so is stealing from the workers, as simple as that, because when we were government we fulfilled it, but they say they can’t; However, suddenly it appears that the government decides to include two million Dominicans in Senasa, in the Subsidized Regime, and they asked the Siuben if those people who were going to benefit were poor? Because the law clearly establishes it.”
“The Subsidized Regime is paid by the government for the poor, but I know not one, but hundreds of people who have a salary, earn well, and have subsidized insurance, because due to demagoguery and political clientelism they registered two million people, and included Villega and everyone who arrives,” he censured.
Alburquerque challenged the moral quality of this government to tell the Fuerza del Pueblo that they intend to remove social subsidies, since in this country it was the governments of Leonel Fernández that established social protection programs with Comer es Primero and the Solidarity card.
“But without political clientelism, and I directed it, but the one that Siuben said came in, not the one I wanted, nor did the director of the Social Cabinet; They were given to poor households exclusively. So there is a way to free the workers from this theft that is being carried out,” insisted the renowned jurist, specialist in Labor Law.
In another order, andThe former vice president of the Republic classified as worryingHey, the issue of drug trafficking and its infiltration into politics is dangerous. at the request of public powers, because it threatens the health of the country; It cannot be allowed to permeate the parties, although it has already advanced, due to all the facts known to public opinion, all the scandal that has occurred with officials, deputies and municipal authorities.
It is an alert that must be taken into account and soak the beard.
