The presidential candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Luis Abinader announced over the weekend alliances with the Social Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRSD) for the presidential election in 2020.
On Sunday, 20 October 2019, he met with Luis Miguel de Camps of the PRSD. The PRSD was founded when PRD party member, the late Hatuey de Camps opposed reelection in the party in 2005.
“This comes from my heart, Luis Miguel (De Camps),” Abinader said, referring to the president of the PRSD, “that I am going to be a bull defending the principles against corruption and against impunity,” he said. The bull is the symbol of the PRSD.
Abinader highlighted the importance of the alliances to ensure that every vote cast at the polls is counted and counts towards making change a reality. He said the votes of the PRSD are essential to defend the vote because the ruling party will not have moral considerations to try to snatch the triumph.
According to Abinader, the governments of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) have made the Dominican Republic the most corrupt country. He said only the political leadership enjoys abundant wealth and access to security to prevent robberies and murders and appoint their own judges to ensure impunity.
In that sense, he said he will fight together with the “Partido del Toro” against crime, corruption and to reverse the bad economic situation, by creating jobs and strengthening Dominican institutions.
For his part, Luis Miguel de Camps, said the convention of that organization approved Abinader’s candidacy “to remove the corrupt plague of power, under a programmatic agreement for institutional strengthening, to combat crime and corruption, to raise the quality of education and promote employment and agriculture in order to improve the quality of life of Dominicans.”
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El Caribe
21 October 2019