President of the Senate Reinaldo Parez Pérez (PLD-National District) says that his political party needs to come about a new model, more appropriate for the 21st Century, and move away from mechanisms and systems that have been inherited from the Trujillo dictatorship days. “Our party cannot continue looking for excuses or justifying the insecurity suffered by the country on the basis of lament,” he said, while advancing that security in its various aspects is one of the pillars of the Electoral Platform that he will present the country in the face of the elections of 2020. Parez Perez has announced his aspirations to seek the presidency for the PLD in 2020. He said he has traveled more than 20 provinces, and in each one of these demarcations the population has expressed their support to his pre-candidacy.
Parez Perez is the brother of Sigmundo Pared Perez, a former Minister of the Armed Forces, who is the present national director of the National Department of Investigations, the local FBI. His other brother, Carlos Parez Perez is personal assistant to President Danilo Medina.
Speaking in a press conference at the Santo Domingo Sheraton on Friday, 1 February 2019, Pared Pérez said the time is ready for new faces in politics. He says that the Constitution bans President Medina from seeking reelection. Addressing former President Leonel Fernandez, he remarked that Dominican society is not the same as in 1996 or 2004.
“Those who have tried to close the electoral debate to only these two leaders do so on the false premise that none of the emerging political projects that have emerged within the PLD have caught on to the symphony or the electorate,” he observed. But he said that there are polls that say differently. He said the polls show people want new fresh figures to participate in the 2020 election.
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
4 February 2019
