The reason for the absence of the matches of the Dominican Liberation (PLD) and the Dominican Revolutionary (PRD), of the dialogue called for a nation pact on the crisis in Haiti was due to the fact that these supposedly They did not receive any invitation from the Government to attend it.
Despite the fact that the call for the pact was made on February 27 by President Luis Abinader during his third accountabilityrepresentatives of these matches Opponents affirm that they were not formally invited and indicated that in the calls for dialogues made by the Government, the only thing they have done is waste time.
Hours before the first meeting that was held on Thursday at the National Palace and attended by representatives of more than 20 party organizations, the PLD and PRD They announced their decision not to participate.
“The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) has not received any invitation to the supposed dialogue that President Abinader suggested in his accountability speech last Monday and even if that happens, they will not attend it, because in other meetings called by the Government time has been wasted participating”, was what was communicated by the party at a time when the meeting with the others was taking place matches.
While the general secretary of the PLD, Charles Mariotti, when asked if it is possible for that organization to evaluate the possibility of attending the next meeting, only pointed out that: “Let’s leave the future to the present.”
For its part, the PRD reported in the afternoon its decision not to participate in the meeting because a document was signed in January of last year and a commission was structured to follow up on the Haitian issue, but that the commission the party is part was not “never convened and it is their role to follow up on the Haitian issue.”
“We have shown interest in the issue, as stated in a document signed in January 2022 together with other political organizations, and we were part of the monitoring commission that it drafted for the joint signature of the government and the parties,” is part of the PRD communiqué that indicates it would not participate in the dialogue of the pact.
Until now, the party has not reported whether it will be present at the next meeting that will take place on March 8.
The meeting lasted around three hours and among the points on which an agreement was reached included the formation of four commissions and at the next meeting the representatives of each party that will make them up will be elected.
The topics that will be discussed have to do with the policy abroad, border control, the policy migration and the effects of the Haitian crisis on the economy of the Dominican Republic, as the main supplier of products to that nation.
