The weekend?s papers cover former President Leonel
Fern?ndez (1996-2000) on the campaign trail for the PLD. Fern?ndez lambasted the
ruling PRD party?s ?disastrous? rule, criticizing what he called ?unbridled
ambition to exercise power? that is proposing the re-election of President Mej?a.
Fern?ndez? also criticized the approval of the judges of the Chamber of Accounts
and the Central Electoral Board.
According to Hoy and the List?n Diario, Leonel Fern?ndez accused the poor track
record of the ruling PRD party as being responsible for the pessimism that is
affecting the nation.
According to the List?n Diario, Fern?ndez accused the PRD of doing little for
the country in spite of expenditures of over RD$200 billion pesos during the
past three years, a sum that was RD$40 billion pesos more that the PLD spent
during their four years in power.
Ex-President Fern?ndez pointed to schools, hospitals and highways that are still
not completed, despite having been nearly finished by his government.
The increase in taxes was another sore point that the former chief executive
emphasized as a negative in his speech.