The spokespersons for the blocks of the Dominican Liberation (PLD) and People’s Force (FP) parties rejected that the Dominican economy has grown by 5.5 percent in the last semester as stated by the Central Bank and said that contrary to what that the Government says poverty continues to increase in the country.
While the spokesman for the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party, Julio Fulcar, assures that certainly in the Dominican economy a notable improvement is observed and said that the projections are that the Dominican Republic will be one of the Latin American countries that will have the highest growth this year.
Juan Julio Campos and Omar Fernández, representatives of the PLD and FP, respectively, also agreed that the improvement referred to by the Central Bank is not felt in the pockets or on the table of the majority of Dominicans.
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“It is enough to go out to the neighborhoods, it is enough to go to the supermarkets, the grocery stores to see how the economy is in the Dominican Republic, how the hardware items are, the medicines, it is the highest inflation in the country’s history,” Campos said.
Omar Fernandez
On his side, Fernández de la Fuerza del Pueblo, argued that the growth of 5.5 that the Central Bank alleges the Dominican economy has had is not reflected in the day-to-day life of Dominicans.
He considered that the official report in this sense apparently refers to specific sectors of the population, but not to the majority of Dominicans.
Julius Fulcar
While the Perremeist spokesman in the Lower House, Julio Fulcar, said that the government of Luis Abinader is recovering an economy that was decimated by the last administration.
He stressed that according to the projections of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Latin America would only grow 2.1% this year.
