Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader assured this Saturday that the Government’s social programs are now greater than ever before, in all orders, which, added to other measures, contribute to mitigating high international prices and bringing cheaper food to the population.
He announced that all these initiatives will continue because he knows that there are many people who need, given the international panorama of price increases, especially due to the increase in raw materials, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19 and the current war in Europe.
He insisted that these high international prices have nothing to do with the Dominican Republic.
“What we are worrying about is mitigating these increases in international prices,” said the government official during a supervision of the Producers Market of the Price Stabilization Institute (INESPRE), on Venezuela Avenue, in the Los Mina sector.
The head of state cited among the measures taken by the government to help external increases impact the population as little as possible, sales at special prices by INESPRE, subsidies to producers and direct aid to those who need it most.
Abinader explained that through Inespre it is sought that food reaches those who need it most and at affordable prices, while highlighting the abundance of products throughout the national geography.
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The director of INESPRE, Ivan Hernandez Guzman, who accompanied the president, reported that this institution maintains 73 producers’ markets and 240 mobile warehouses per week, as well as special sales in 250 supermarkets.
“What we are doing is what many people need, we are going to mitigate price increases through Inespre so that people can purchase products at low prices,” Abinader pointed out.
Regarding the position of sectors of the opposition who oppose the zero rate for more than 60 products that make up the basic basket, President Abinader said that they previously agreed with this measure.
“They used to agree and now they disagree, what we want is to bring the cheapest food to the town, they can oppose it, but we are taking measures in such difficult circumstances so that the cheapest food arrives everywhere,” said the leader.
