Santo Domingo.-President Luis Abinader announced this Monday that next week the limitation for the driver license that establishes the regulations for the application of the Traffic Law, which restricts the renewal of this document to only two years for people over 65 and older and in addition, they charge them the same amount of 1,900 pesos as if it were for four years.
This was stated by President Abinader after a question from journalist César Duvernay in his weekly press conference with the media at the National Palace.
“I’m not going to pay it, because that provision is going to be eliminated next week,” said the president, while joking about his age, assuring that it won’t be 65 now. Abinader is 57 years old.
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Following this announcement, the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) called a press conference “where it will offer important statements”, which is presumed to be the announcement of the elimination of this measure.
The limitations on the renewal of the driver’s license for more than two years for adults over 65 years of age and older correspond to a provision provided for in article 21 of Decree 6-19, which dictates the Driver’s License Regulations of the Law 63-17 on Traffic.
The measure, which had never been applied, constitutes a violation and discrimination of the right to equality, contemplated in article 39 of the Constitution of the Dominican Republic.
El Nacional warned of this situation through a series of journalistic works, the demand for which has been escalating among the population and in different media.
