A special commission of the Dominican Senate handed a list of approximately 2,000 professional people to the government: agronomists, teachers, doctors and nursing personnel, that had been cancelled during the first six months of the PLD government. Government spokespeople promised to study the proposal made by the Senate, and this, in turn, gave hope to a lot of people that had been fired from their jobs with the change of government.
At the same time, the president of the Senate, Andres Bautista (PRD-Espaillat) sent the three bond proposals to a special commission for study. This is the first move on the part of the Senate that had declared itself to be in rebellion against the PLD administration.
Sucre Munoz from Barahona and Juan Morales from Hato Mayor made the announcement, after they had met with the Minister of Agriculture and the directors of the State Sugar Council (CEA) and the Agrarian Reform Institute. The government representatives promised to visit several agrarian reform sites to verify if rural farmers had been forced off of their lands during the past administration, and agricultural technicians fired.