The president of the Dominican industrialists association (AIRD) Lisandro Macarrulla voiced his support yesterday for the planned partial privatization of the power sector. “The business sector will know how to manage this more efficiently,” he said, while nevertheless admitting that the manner in which the process was carried out would be crucial in determining its success or failure. Andres Dauhajre Sr, president of the national importers association (ANI), echoed these opinions and went a step further: he declared that the government should be looking at selling 100% of all shares and that the generation companies should take over distribution to minimize the intermediary cost-margins, improve efficiency and eliminate cashflow problems due to delays in payment that plague the sector in its cumbersome two-tier structure.