In an energetic tone and with several blows to the table, President Luis Abinader said that in his government he will not allow any rank to be above the law in the Dominican Republic.
Abinader referred to the allegation of assault made by an agent of the Police, that accuses the perremeísta deputy Sadoky Duarte.
The president believes it is convenient and that what proceeds is what the Chief of Police did, who is bringing the deputy to justice “and he sees it well”. He said that as for the party, he is not only suspended but will be expelled, as José Ignacio Pallissa, president of the organization, announced yesterday.
“There is no rank that can be above the law in this government, we will not allow that,” emphasize the first president this morning.
When asked about the death of the Air Force pilot colonel, Ramón Israel Rodríguez Creu, From the hands of a police patrol in Mao, Valverde, the president said he is respectful of the institutions and that justice is investigating.
“This is the society we aspire to, it’s not what I think, it’s what justice decides,” he said.
The president answered questions from journalists at the National Palace where announce the incorporation of all police officers in the Premium service of the National Health Service (Senasa), with 18 thousand pesos of medicines per year and a coverage in high-cost diseases of one million 500 thousand pesos per year.
also announced that from the first of January a salary increase will be applied to police officers ranging from 20 to 40%.
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The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) sent to the National Prosecutor of this political group the accusation that weighs against the deputy Sadoky Duarte, who allegedly assaulted an agent of the National Police.
Through its account on the social network Twitter, the PRM issued a statement stating that they had received information about the signal that the deputy has from the National Police.
“We have received information that there is a report from the National Police to MP Sadoky Duarte, a member of our Bloc of Deputies for assaulting a police officer. We have arranged for this case to be sent to the National Prosecutor of the party for the purposes of siege, “the statement said.
In addition, they pointed out that “any member of this organization who violates the rules of public order will have to answer personally for their actions.”
On this accusation, the president of the PRM and Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Pallissa, expressed that he will demand the expulsion of Sadoky Duarte of the party.
Pallissa is also president of the PRM.