These past two years have been a long honeymoon period during which President Danilo Medina has dealt with thorny issues and made about-turns on certain controversial measures, writes Diario Libre. In a feature, the newspaper feature highlights that Medina has maintained his image as an accessible and “all-terrain” President.
Tomorrow, Saturday 16 August 2014, the President marks the halfway point of his administration, maintaining his high popularity levels, with positive achievements in some sectors like education and farming, but with huge challenges remaining in the areas of public safety, economic management, public health and electricity.
The problems that could have caused a prolonged crisis in his administration included the renegotiation of the contract with the Barrick Gold gold-mining company, and all the national and international criticism in response to sentence 168-13 on the nationality of children of immigrants.
The President is seen as being close to the people, supervising and pushing for new measures and solutions to national and local problems in the country remotest areas. He has been criticized for changing his stance on some issues, like the proposed tourism development in Bahia de las Aguilas and the construction of the Cibao-South Highway, in apparent contradiction to his stated target of promoting the arrival of 10 million tourists to the country each year.
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