President Leonel Fernandez recently announced that the government would be issuing a decree requiring tenders for the construction of all public works and contracting, especially for the Ministry of Public Works. The Coalition for Transparency has campaigned for this to be introduced. Ditto the Citizens Forum (Foro Ciudadano) and the recently established National Commission for Ethics and Fight against Corruption has also backed the decree. Rafael Molina Morillo, in his column in Hoy newspaper today, comments: “Now, is it to be expected that he who has the power to distribute the bread and the fish resign voluntarily this prerogative? Our wish is for Mr. President to surprise us.”