The president of the ruling PLD party, three-time former President Leonel Fernandez has told his followers in New York City that the PLD is the only political party that has a clear vision of civilization. He said that politics in the DR today is the struggle of civilization against barbarism. “The other is chaos, disorder… and that leads to nowhere,” said Fernandez, referring to the political parties that oppose the PLD.
Fernandez stressed that anyone visiting the Dominican Republic today can see the major changes that have occurred as a result of good government by the PLD administrations. As reported, he said that the Dominican population could see this situation clearly into the coming elections.
El Nuevo Diario reports that the committee that accompanied Fernandez during his visit to New York included controversial former government officers, senator Felix Bautista, former Minister of Public Works Victor Diaz Rua, former Minister of Industry and Commerce Luis Manuel Bonetti, and former Minister of Agriculture Salvador (Chio) Jimenez.
In reply to the statement by former President Fernandez, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch (2000-2004) said that the country had inherited the highest public corruption ever from Fernandez and the PLD, as well as the deterioration of its institutions, the lack of ethics and morals in politics, and a foreign debt that makes development higher to achieve.
Speaking for the newly created Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM), made up of PRD dissidents, Ortiz Bosch said that former President Fernandez talks abroad thinking that people have not kept up with his unfortunate governments, or his open intentions to become a caudillo and head of the only political party in the country.
She commented that Fernandez spoke in New York at a time when publications like the Wall Street Journal were questioning corruption in his government, such as the purchase of the Super Tucano jets.
“I think that decent citizens aspire to a better society and we would like to practice the so-called civilization that former President Leonel Fernandez speaks of abroad,” she commented.
As reported in El Nuevo Diario, she said everyone suspects why Fernandez invested RD$200 billion to corrupt the democratic bodies in the country and conquer political parties, taking hold of judicial bodies and his government officials and closest collaborators now enjoy the most embarrassing judicial impunity in the country.
She commented that Fernandez was not the best person to speak about civilization because he had the opportunity to lead the country to become more civilized and did the contrary.
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