Santo Domingo.- “As soon as the president announces it, if he does, I will be in the front row supporting him,” this was the response of the director of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), on whether he would support the re-election of President Luis Abinader.
Juan Manuel Méndez García explained that from the beginning he said “Support for President Luis AbinaderI understand that he (Luis Abinader) is doing a good government, he has distinguished me and as such I will do it ”.
It is remembered that in December last year Méndez García He said on a television program that he will support President Luis Abinader if he decides to be re-elected for the presidency in the 2024 elections.
«I will do everything possible, if the president understands that I must support him. I will support him so that he is re-elected, “Méndez García replied on that occasion when asked about his position on a possible re-election of Abinader.
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rain damage
«none meteorologist could prevent what happened on Friday“Juan Manuel Méndez pointed out in an interview on the Hoy Mismo program.
It happened that what could precipitate in a month fell in three hoursto this is added the rulings that since the founding of the Republic the storm drain.
The director of the Emergency Operations Center explained that in scientific terms the body in charge of notifying what can happen in relation to rain is the National Meteorology Office.
He recalled that in recent months events of this type have recently occurred in Guatemala, Colombia and Venezuela product of climate change.
“There were practically 200 millimeters of rain in three hours and no storm drain is prepared for that,” said the director of the COE.
