An editorial in Diario Libre today focuses on the reticence of President Danilo Medina in attacking difficult issues that are key challenges for the organization of Dominican society and development. “This is a government of lots of advertising and public relations and little substance,” writes executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada in the editorial. He says this can be appreciated in the postponing of the needed changes in labor rules, pension plans, the Police, Criminal Code and the Political Parties and Electoral bills. “Is the country condemned to see its social boiler explode every so often due to the inertia of its political class to lead the changes demanded by the country?” asks the editorial.
Tejada says what is clear is that President Medina will not go down in history for what he spends in propaganda, but for what he does in favor of Dominican institutions and lasting development.
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Diario Libre
13 November 2017
