Newly re-elected Senate president, Andres Bautista, said that the DR-Cafta deal would be passed by Congress if there was an equal distribution of the tax burden and the compensatory measures for the industrial sector were well done. Bautista also called for “a larger and more efficient social investment.” Bautista, speaking to the Senate after his re-election, said that the government and certain sectors were only worried about the government’s own need for compensation for the revenue lost under the terms of DR-CAFTA. He said that this type of thinking leaves social and industrial requirements in second place, but he hoped that the government would act as “an ally… in the search for concrete alternatives.” Bautista also called for the government to define its trade policies as well as its policies regarding international relations within the scope of the new legislative session.