{"id":139892,"date":"2020-04-02T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=139892"},"modified":"2020-04-02T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:27:51","slug":"prm-presidential-candidate-calls-for-unity-and-drastic-measures-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/02\/prm-presidential-candidate-calls-for-unity-and-drastic-measures-now\/","title":{"rendered":"PRM presidential candidate calls for unity and drastic measures now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Luis-Abinader-Listin-Diario-e1580351270673.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133054\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luis Abinader, the presidential candidate for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), called for all Dominicans to put aside politics and focus on the present health challenges. \u201cToday we have to be just Dominicans,\u201d he said when interviewed for the \u201cShow del Mediodia\u201d noontime TV variety show on Channel 9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the PRM is waiting for the government to approve the protocol for the donation of 40,000 diagnostic test kits the party is importing and that are expected to arrive in groups of 10,000 starting this week. The lack of diagnostic tests has been a major obstacle in the war against the coronavirus. Public Health Minister Rafael Sanchez Cardenas has admitted the Ministry has not secured suppliers to meet the demand for PCR tests in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abinader says the Medina administration has rejected the proposal for a united front that would include opposition party members. He says the government had not responded to their offers to help fight the disease. \u201cWe are going to continue helping as we can,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a problem that we all have to attack and we have not wanted to politicize it as the government has done,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said for the PRM the health of the Dominican people is priority No. 1. He says the government needs to spend what is needed in diagnostic tests and equipment. \u201cThe more we dig into this, the quicker we will get out of it,\u201d he said. Abinader said he would back more drastic measures, keeping open pharmacies, supermarkets, colmados, and farms to operate to ensure food supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst is health, the rest we can resolve later,\u201d he said. He said it is better to take drastic measures to stop the spread of the virus now.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CulsVG-l0vk\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Abinader, the presidential candidate for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), called for all Dominicans to put aside politics and focus on the present health challenges. \u201cToday we have to be just Dominicans,\u201d he said when interviewed for the \u201cShow del Mediodia\u201d noontime TV variety show on Channel 9. He said the PRM is waiting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/02\/prm-presidential-candidate-calls-for-unity-and-drastic-measures-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139892"}],"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=139892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139932,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139892\/revisions\/139932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}