President Danilo Medina continues avoiding directly addressing pressing issues of the day with the Dominican people. President Danilo Medina was asked yesterday by reporters covering the Presidential Palace to respond to a petition published on Monday, 19 June 2017, that called for his resignation and or removal from office. The President limited his comments to a single liner: Let me do my job (Déjenme trabajar).
Medina had just come out of a two-hour meeting with the representatives of 21 construction companies involved in the creation of Juan Bosch City, a huge low-income housing project in Santo Domingo.
Activists and citizens led by writer Andres L. Mateo published their request that Danilo Medina resign from office alleging that he took office through a campaign financed with international financing from the Odebrecht construction company. There is speculation that Medina was a main beneficiary of the Odebrecht corruption scandal.
Neither President Medina, nor his predecessors former Presidents Leonel Fernandez and Hipólito Mejía have been investigated in regards to the Odebrecht scandal, despite major public works contracting that occurred during their administrations. The Attorney General has accused 14 government officials of having accepted bribes from the company or permitting the overvaluation of public works. President Medina has not spoken publicly on the Odebrecht case.
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Diario Libre
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22 June 2017
