The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) rejected the proposal for a counter-march in answer to the very successful protest march held on 22 January 2017 in Santo Domingo. The Secretary General of the party, Reinaldo Pared Perez, said that the party is “strongly opposed to the creation of a march in answer to that of Sunday, 22 January.”
This statement by Pared Perez appeared in his Twitter account. He added: “To sponsor and organize a march in answer to that of Sunday 22 January, would be nonsensical and close to silly.”
Last week, the Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ramon Peralta, expressed similar feelings as he distanced the government from a march to be carried out by some 600 organizations in answer to the one held against impunity and corruption last Sunday.
26 January 2017
