In an editorial today, Tuesday 20 October 2015, Diario Libre executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada warns that if Dominican society does not get organized to put a stop to the all-encompassing power of the political class, leaving behind its traditional passivity, it will be impossible to live in this country if one is not a politician.
He addresses the fact that the most serious institutional problems in our country are caused by the lack of balance between the particular interests of politicians and the collective interest of citizens.
He writes that an independent prosecutor for investigating government corruption will never be appointed, there will never be an adequate political party bill, and the rules will never be the same for all, unless society empowers itself at the same level or above the politicians.
“The political class maintains a status quo solely for its own benefit, while the rest of society has to beg,” he writes. “That political class is in on all the deals. Before it was only in the public transactions, but now it uses the state to get involved, even in private business that now can only flourish with political ‘godfathers,’ in exchange for a share, of course,” he writes.
http://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/am/el-equilibrio-BX1606344