{"id":49118,"date":"1997-12-04T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1997-12-04T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/the-role-of-politicians\/"},"modified":"1997-12-04T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1997-12-04T01:43:56","slug":"the-role-of-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1997\/12\/04\/the-role-of-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the List&iacute;n Diario, Dr. Jos&eacute; Francisco Pe&ntilde;a G&oacute;mez, leader of the opposition party, Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, favors the government giving more importance to the role of politicians in Dominican society, as these are called upon to lead the changes that will transform Dominican society. Nevertheless, he was pessimistic about the results of the Di&aacute;logo Nacional called by President Fern&aacute;ndez as a forum with the participation of politicians and the civic society. He criticized the present government&#8217;s placing more importance on the civic society than on political groups. During the interview, Dr. Pe&ntilde;a G&oacute;mez said he would accept the nomination for PRD senator for San Crist&oacute;bal as was proposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the List&iacute;n Diario, Dr. Jos&eacute; Francisco Pe&ntilde;a G&oacute;mez, leader of the opposition party, Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, favors the government giving more importance to the role of politicians in Dominican society, as these are called upon to lead the changes that will transform Dominican society. Nevertheless, he was pessimistic about the results &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1997\/12\/04\/the-role-of-politicians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49118"}],"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=49118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}