Speaking at the closing of a workshop to prepare elected legislators for the new term that starts on 16 August 2024, President Luis Abinader announced from the start of his second term he would spearhead a new transformation with the presenting to Congress of several reforms aimed at impacting Dominican society.
“It is now up to us, starting on 16 August, to lead this new transformation and this great national pact of reforms, reforms that should take us from being a middle-income economy to a developed and high-income economy in 12 or 15 years,” said the President.
“We have planned constitutional reform, fiscal reform including public expenditure efficiency, tax reform, social security reform, and a pending labor law reform to further increase real wages for workers, along with continued modernization of public administration,” detailed the President.
He stressed that these reforms and other changes are necessary to propel the country towards development.
“With the majority in Congress that we have, we have no excuses; this Congress must be the most productive in history,” Abinader concluded.
President Abinader says once his second term begins on 16 August 2024, he will be introducing to Congress the new reforms. He promised to not run again in 2028. “… to dispel any doubt, our proposal includes a transitional article for the current President, ensuring that by 2028, after fulfilling our reforms and our legacy, we step aside for good.”
“I’ll say just one thing about the constitutional reform. What do we aim for? We want to secure provisions so that these terms cannot be changed,” the President stated at the conclusion of the international workshop “Legislative Excellence: Innovation, Reforms, and Party Cohesion,” at the Aloft Piantini organized to prepare the elected senators and deputies for the upcoming legislative term beginning on 16 August.
While Abinader assured he won’t seek to extend his presidency, he pledged to serve as a “guarantor of democracy.”
“We not only have two-thirds majority, we have three-quarters, and we must tell the people who granted us this great privilege, who gave us all this power, that they gave us that power to limit ourselves,” he emphasized.
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15 July 2024