{"id":111210,"date":"2018-04-04T13:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111210"},"modified":"2018-04-04T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:27:29","slug":"52-dominicans-approve-medina-administration-57-say-country-is-misguided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/52-dominicans-approve-medina-administration-57-say-country-is-misguided\/","title":{"rendered":"52% Dominicans approve Medina administration, 57% say country is misguided"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98595\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98595\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/President-Danilo-Medina-Almomento.net_-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Danilo Medina \/ Al Momento<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>52% of Dominicans eligible to vote approve the Medina administration, 38.6% believe efforts of the government are taking the country in the wrong direction. 56.3% understand the best achievements by the Medina administration have been in the education sector. The next best achievement is the implementation of the 911 emergency system, mentioned by 12.1% of the voters. Other achievements mentioned are the construction of public works (9.2%) and the much promoted so-called \u201csurprise visits\u201d by President Medina all around the country, cited by 9% of the voters.<\/p>\n<p>Contradictorily, 57% of those polled understand the country is headed in the wrong direction, while 38.6% understand it is going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>40% understand the economy has worsened in the past 12 months, and 35% feel it has remained the same. For 25%, the economy has gotten better.<\/p>\n<p>When evaluating their personal family situation, 39% said their situation has remained the same, while 34% said their situation had improved.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/04\/04\/509058\/el-81-considera-migracion-haiti-perjudica-a-la-rd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>52% of Dominicans eligible to vote approve the Medina administration, 38.6% believe efforts of the government are taking the country in the wrong direction. 56.3% understand the best achievements by the Medina administration have been in the education sector. The next best achievement is the implementation of the 911 emergency system, mentioned by 12.1% of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/52-dominicans-approve-medina-administration-57-say-country-is-misguided\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}