Former President Leonel Fernandez visited Judge Rosa Esther Agelan Casasnovas of the Juzgado de Instrucción de la Segunda Circunscripción del Distrito Nacional for questioning regarding the PEME scandal. He visited the judge accompanied by former Vice President Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal, and former government members Alejandrina Germán and Temístocles Montás. The former President said that he is convinced that the questioning by the judge on the management of the Programa de Empleo Mínimo Eventual has been carried out with the purpose of annihilating moral and politically the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana. The former statesman was interviewed upon his return to his Av. Mexico home after a five-hour ordeal with the judge. Fernandez commented that by volunteering to answer the judge’s questions, he hoped to give an example in the DR and Latin America of never evading the requirements of the law. "Different from others, both nationally and internationally, that have sought to avoid the requirements of the judiciary, in my particular case, I believe that with my conduct of appearing in a voluntary way and without the formality of a summons, we start a new model of how a responsible politician responds to the call of Justice," said Fernandez. "Of course, this attitude and conduct I can assume because I have always acted with honesty, decorum and dignity regarding the values of the Dominican people. "I understand that in my case, again the ill-fated circumstance of what appears to be an inexorable law of our history, in virtue of which those that have been head of state see themselves submitted to exile, attempts, prison, coups de etat, assassinations, suicide or intents of discredit. "It is a shame that we are starting the 21st Century with the same methods as the Republic began in the 19th Century," said the former statesman.
