The President Luis Abinader responded to the former president’s statements Danilo Medinawho stated that the constitutional reform that the Government presented to the National Congress is iUnnecessary and risky at this time, and which only seeks to divert the population’s attention from the problems that afflict it.
According to the Head of State, the real risk for the country was the intention of Medina, current president of the opposition Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), to modify the Magna Carta in 2019 to seek a third consecutive term.
“The attempt to modify the reelection in 2019 was high risk. That was high risk for the country,” said Abinader when asked about it on Monday by members of the press in La Semanal.
«What we want is to prevent this attempt from happening again, so that there is peace in Dominican society, and so that this is, as I said, the first of the reforms, so that all these reforms can serve as the basis for continuing to develop the country and double the economy by 2036. This is what will bring peace and not be every eight years, when the term ends, questioning whether he will be reelected or not. In other words, to eliminate this questioning that is done every eight years», added the president and reiterated: «He (Danilo Medina) modified it once, in 2015, and he wanted to modify it again in 2019, that is dangerous».
What Medina said
Through a document presented by the former President of the Republic, Danilo Medina As president of the organization, the PLD believes that the reform proposal is nothing more than a new effort by the Government to divert the attention of the Dominican people.
In the document, the PLD insists that improving the living conditions of the majority of the Dominican population should be the priority of the national government, as well as of the main social and political forces in the country.
He expressed his conviction that the discussion of the proposed constitutional reform at this time constitutes “an effort, yet another of the many to which this government has subjected us in the last four years, to divert the attention of the Dominican people from the issues that overwhelm and despair them.”
He points out that the proposal is being put forward in an improvised and disorganised manner, as evidenced by the public letter of the Attorney General of the Republic in which she revealed that she had not been consulted regarding the reform of the sector that she presides over.
In line with the above, he indicates that the proposal in question is presented in populist and propagandistic terms regarding the image of the president of the republic, and does not respond to a sincere desire to attend, with legal and political rigor, the most pressing institutional problems.
Among these, the huge increase, unprecedented in the country’s history, in spending on government advertising stands out, always to praise, with a morbid eagerness, the person of the president of the republic.
Likewise, the approval of dozens of important laws, many of which tend to operationalize the constitutional contents and which, by virtue of the current political majorities in the hands of the nation’s first president, should be attended to without delays or setbacks. He emphasizes that the current proposal for constitutional reform is carried out within the framework of a propaganda strategy with the purpose of denigrating not only the political opposition but all those who criticize or oppose it.
He believes that priority should be given to problems such as blackouts.
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