The block of senators of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) demanded this morning the resignation of the Minister of the Interior and Police, Jesús Vásquez Martínez, who they say “threw in the towel” for months by losing the battle against violence and crime that plagues the Dominican Republic.
While the spokesman for the senators of the People’s Force (FP), Dionis Sánchez, affirmed that the government of Luis Abinader “burned out” in the matter of the fight against criminals.
“He must go, he does nothing there, the Minister of the Interior and Police has long since thrown in the towel, he lost the battle in the fight against crime,” said Yván Lorenzo, spokesman for the PLD senators.
The opposition senator added that “lies are not going to correct citizen insecurity, I think that the Minister of the Interior and Police threw in the towel a long time ago, the President of the Republic, perhaps out of political respect, keeps him in office, but Unfortunately in the Dominican Republic it is already the save yourself who can.
He considered as very dangerous that they want to make up the reality of insecurity that society lives and said that this can motivate people to go out into the street unsuspecting, believing that there is certainly a safe environment in the country, when in practice it is the opposite.
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Lorenzo said that at this time Dominicans cannot take to the streets due to the high levels of insecurity and violence that plague the country.
“I think it hurts and it is more pernicious to make up the statistics so that the people get confused and do not take the forecasts of the place to go out, then it is more dangerous, because people may think that the data that the authorities are offering is real . President Abinader is presenting the country with a false picture of reality regarding the levels of insecurity that the country is experiencing,” said the also member of the Political Committee of the PLD.
He added that the Minister of the Interior and Police “has practically lost the battle against the violence that plagues the streets.”
Dionis Sanchez
On his side, Dionis Sánchez maintained that despite Abinader’s re-election speech in Santiago, where he sought to justify his fight against violence, the government has burned out on citizen security.
The senator stressed that one of the main reasons why part of the people voted in favor of Abinader was because he promised that in two years he would reduce violence and citizen insecurity “and what he has done is increase, like everything that It has happened in this government that everything has increased negatively, so the same thing has happened with citizen insecurity.
“Unfortunately, an event such as the death of deputy Darío Zapata, which precisely shows that what he was saying is not true, I believe that the government needs to improve the living conditions of citizens, to try to lower that high level of insecurity. citizen that we have that whoever is on the street is not safe,” he said.
refuse to comment
Yesterday the Minister of the Interior and Police refused to talk about the report from the National Statistics Office (ONE) which shows that in 2021 there were 177 more homicides than those reported by his institution in April of this year. The report ensures that last year there were 1,349 of the 27,850 that were produced in the last 14 years.
