President Leonel Fernández denied that his government is attempting to install a dictatorship, as opposition party Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez said yesterday. "I have never known that the legitimate popular will of a people, expressed with their vote in the polls, can be turned into a dictatorship," said the President who is on the campaign trail in support of PLD contenders in the congressional and municipal elections. President Fernández defended his administration saying that he promised to confront the electricity problem, and has been installing power plants. He said his government would find solutions to the public transport problem, and is modernizing the service. He promised to strengthen the democratic institutions and this is apparent all over. But, he said, "There are things that the President cannot do by himself which require the collaboration of Congress and that is why I am involved in this electoral campaign to see if we can increase the PLD’s participation in Congress. With this increase, we hope that in coordination with the legislators from other parties, we can establish a consensus to pass the long-awaited and necessary reforms. "Dominican society is not a poor society, but it is a society with many injustices. Social injustice can only begin to be resolved by introducing a package of reform bills to the National Congress."
