The president of the PRSC, engineer Federico Antun Batlle says that the PRSC party legislators would not vote in favor of taking on a loan to fund the metro. Antun Batlle disputes the nation should take on a project as costly as the metro for Santo Domingo. “The Reformista Party does not oppose the modernization of transport. All the contrary. We wish that a modern and economic transport system could be built with internal savings, in the same manner as the dams Tavera and Valdesia were built by the Balaguer administration without taking on foreign debt. Antun suggested that the government reduce its employment, the number of vehicle perks provided to government employees and its spending in general to generate the necessary savings. “What we do oppose is to continue creating illusions for the Dominican people on the base of increasing the foreign debt, because the country cannot bear any more foreign debt that is becoming eternal,” he said.