The spokesman for President Danilo Medina, Roberto Rodríguez Marchena, guaranteed that “the President would not upset or disrupt the constitutional mandate”. He gave this statement in reference to recent expressions of support for a possible bid for re-election by the President in the 2020 elections. Rodríguez was interviewed on the Super 7 In the Morning, yesterday morning.
Rodríguez told reporters: “But you can be sure, as the President himself has said, that he is not going to upset that which is a constitutional mandate, and in other words everyone can be at ease about that.” At the start of his first mandate, Medina had also promised to adhere to the 2012 Constitution that banned consecutive re-election. He would then go on to change the Constitution so that he could run again in keeping with the 2015 Constitution.
President Medina’s spokesman, Rodríguez called the Odebrecht construction company case a “passing storm” for the government. He basically told reporters that “lots of countries and lots of governments are being buffeted by this political storm and all you need is a pilot who is sufficiently calm and who doesn’t panic….”
He called the Green March Movement an expression of the vitality of Dominican society and he said that the initiative must be supported because there are many Dominicans who are fighting so that public resources are used in a transparent and correct manner.
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7 Dias
10 August 2017
