Rafael (Fello) Subervi Bonilla, who recently joined President Hipolito Mejia’s campaign for re-election, blamed Mejia’s cabinet ministers for the President’s low ratings in the polls, reported Hoy newspaper today. When asked about why President Mejia had an 86% rejection rate in the most recent Penn Schoen survey, Subervi said: “This is a government of mutes. I have denounced this 20 times and told the President that his ministers do not know how to speak about what they are doing, they do not participate in TV shows, they do not discuss their work programs. A government of mutes and dysfunctional promotion of government works has resulted in the high rejection rates,” he said. Subervi Bonilla believes that now that the PRD is working as a united group, the PRD Presidential campaign will gain momentum. “If you make a poll when rice is expensive and there is a scarcity of fuel, there is no way the results are going to favor the government,” he explained, saying things would change in the short term for the better for his party.
He denied the PRD would attempt to fraudulently alter the results of the elections. “Why are they [the PLD] so uneasy about fraud, when there cannot be fraud with rates of 67% for Leonel and 14% for Hipolito. That is impossible. No one can perpetrate fraud in these times. The country is beyond that. They do not have anything to be concerned about. They have won, just let us dream and continue working to bring back the PRD,” said the PRD Vice-Presidential candidate, adding that it is sheer propaganda that Leonel will be able to reduce prices if elected.
In his interview with Hoy newspaper, Subervi referred to what he described as Mejia’s massive construction program, saying that the Mejia administration has built 16,000 school rooms, 24,000 houses, improved 300,000 housing units and increased distribution of school breakfasts to 1.6 million rations. The Mejia government finished the Herrera hospital, the Autovia del Este and the Hospital de la Mujer and remodelled the Arturo Grullon Hospital in Santiago and the San Vicente de Paul in San Francisco de Macoris. On the list of government achievements he said is the construction of 115 sports arenas, the Pan Am Games, delivering 140,000 property titles, installation of solar panels in rural communities, improvement of the power distribution networks and the construction of 117 rural aqueducts.