Bartolomé Pujals, the Alianza País candidate to the mayor for the National District, has submitted his proposals for the 2020-2024 to the Central Electoral Board (JCE). On 8 January 2020, he presented his municipal management program. The program gives priority to reinstating to the municipality its role in organizing human mobility and vehicular traffic in the city. Pujals says if elected, he will work to recover and create new public spaces, to turn garbage into money, automate the municipal management and double the forest cover of the Dominican capital. Pujals is a well-known activist of the Green March movement. He is also running for El País Que Queremos (The Country We Want).
He said the 2020-2024 municipal program is the result of a broad consultation process, workshops with experts, policy discussions and the review of best practices and experiences in the region on sustainable urban development.
“We will build the city day after day through a complex network of social relations. The city is born from our daily life and our relationships with neighbors, colleagues, passers-by, shopkeepers, etc. and is shaped by the millions of people who pass through it,” said the candidate.
He called for an inclusive city, based on the equitable distribution of resources. He said the problem of chaos in Santo Domingo is eminently a political one. He says the know-how and technologies exist for a sustainable, safe, intelligent and humane city.
Pujals is competing for the position against Domingo Contreras of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Carolina Mejía of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Johnny Ventura of the Force of the People (FP), and Hugo Beras of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), among others.
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El Dia
9 January 2020