The project to build an artificial airline in front of the Malecon sea-fronting boulevard of Santo Domingo seems to finally dying out. The project had been endorsed by former President Hipolito Mejia and also by President Leonel Fernandez. It needed congressional approval and looks like it will not get it. Outside of some very few sectors in government, the project had always met with widespread disapproval from Dominicans in general. The disclosure of legal cases against one of the promoters led to the retiring of support from several leading Dominican supporters.
Now spokesmen for the PRD block of senators and the PRSC block of deputies say that it is a dead project and that there is no need for Congress to reject it because it is not even worth reviewing.
As reported in El Dia newspaper, Tommy Duran, spokesman for the PRD senators and member of the Finance Commission that had received the contract for review, and Ramon Rogelio Genao, spokesman for the PRSC deputies said that legislators would do well to employ their time on other matters. “The opinions against it of so many legislators and the people indicate that this project will die in Congress and not go anywhere from here,” said Duran. In Genao’s opinion, the project was only doable in the minds of two or three gullible persons.