As many criticize the fact that former Vice-President Jaime David Fernandez Mirabel has been left out of the current administration, PLD party leader Lidio Cadet revealed that the former VP was offered a post and turned it down.
El Caribe reports that amid the heavy pressures being exerted by PLD party members to win the coveted functionary posts, Fernandez Mirabel, who was the president’s right-hand man in the former PLD administration, was offered a position in the area of natural resources and environment, which he did not accept. Cadet said he did not know the reason behind Fernandez Mirabal’s rejection of the offer that would have permitted him and his followers to take an active role in the current government.
Speaking on the televised morning show “Despierta con CDN,” Cadet reminded the PLD activists clamoring for appointments that sacrifices were necessary within the official party’s ranks, especially in view of President Fernandez’s proclaimed goal of reducing the public payroll by 20%.
“The government’s plans for austerity obliges us to rely on a willingness to make sacrifices, without which there is no possibility of facing down this crisis with any degree of success,” he said to his interviewer.
As a member of the committee allocating the public-sector posts to the PLD party’s faithful, Cadet said they are doing everything possible to ensure that these posts are filled by people with the professional qualifications necessary. The distribution of these positions has caused several disgruntled PLD activists to believe that only members of a certain group within the party are being favored by these appointments.
Yesterday, PLD representative Natacha Sanchez demanded that PLD activists be named to the public posts yet to be handed over. It has been reported that certain PRD functionaries have been asked to stay on at their posts until suitable replacements can be named. In Sanchez’s opinion, it would be a grave error to leave these jobs in the hands of “strangers,” as they do not belong to the PLD party.