President Abinader will end the year well but rushed by the pandemic, the hasty cancellations of public servants and for a unit to approve without consultation the idea of ”hiring” for 100 million pesos a group of popular musicians.
Abinader has nothing to do with these events but are the work of the circumstances, the members of his Cabinet, who apparently have not weighed the guidelines contained in his speeches both in the election campaign and after the 16 d ‘August.
The rebellion of a boisterous minority is damaging the point to the president. Especially young people are now the majority of those infected with COVID-19 that has the country on embers due to a predicted resurgence of the pandemic that threatens to collapse hospitals.
President Abinader no longer knows with what words to address the public to understand the gravity of the situation and has had to maintain the state of emergency that had already been imposed by the previous government and lately make health measures more flexible.
In two currents, that of many businessmen and the tourism sector who want the economy to open wide, scientists and the Dominican Medical College who propose to tighten the current rules, the president seeks to please everyone by thinking about the good country.
The president announced that the country will be among the first to start vaccination among countries in the region. The Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña reported that the first payment for the initial loading of vaccines amounts to US $ 8 million. It is intended to acquire vaccines for 10 million people.
With the controlled opening of the economy, the Central Bank says that remittances have increased during the year, that inflation remained with slight changes in the period January-November and that the increase in public debt it is due to the pandemic.
The BC reports that the consumer price index, CPI, recorded a change of 0.60% in November compared to October 2020 and notes that considering the analytical series of the new benchmark, year-on-year inflation, measured from November 2019 to November 2020, it stood at 4.40.
cancellations
In recent weeks there have been many cancellations of employees and civil servants especially in the Ministry of Education, in which 39,500 employees have been disengaged as published and yesterday by the Free Newspaper.
The country has changed a lot. In the Era of Trujillo cancellations in Christmas did not take place, although the disaffections of this regime suffered worse luck than the dismissals. During the Balaguer regimes the practice of not expelling people from their places for Christmas was followed.
Apparently the Minister of Education, Roberto Fulcar is a psycho-rigid man. He has not explained the reasons why so many administrative employees were fired, whether it was because he found the payrolls overloaded or whether they are people who will be retired.
Balaguer was astute after taking power in his final stretch of 10 years, after defeating the Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD, and drew up his plan based on allegations of alleged acts of corruption committed in his government. predecessor Dr. Jorge Blanco.
For these purposes the old cazurro used his then comptroller general, José Antonio Guzmán Álvarez with whom he appeared on television to explain in detail what had happened, intending to bury PRD forever, who would later agree to declare him “father of the homeland “.
During the regime of the PRD in 1963 the expression was coined “the flattener”, endilgada to Do6na Thelma Fredes de Rodríguez, the dynamic senator of the National District and to whom the responsibilities of the dismissals fell to him. She could never get over that bad memory.
Abinader is still up
Despite the apparent stumbling block in the strategy against the growth of VOCID-19, the president continues with his high popularity because the majority that elected him trusts his promise of change and because indirectly the “anti-pop operation” it would be beneficial.
But the president has in his favor details such as the case of the visit of his wife, Raquel Arbaje, to a dying photographer at the cancer hospital and who had sent him a message asking for help or at least his visit. She visited him and they prayed but the case was terminal and within hours he died, which caused him great anguish.
News of human interest, a genre widely considered in journalism, has led to the current pandemic the cases of brave doctors and nurses, relatives who have lost grandparents and parents and the long lines of people praying for bread. in the United States, they have gained space in the print and television press. Last Monday the President created the Cabinet of Transparency, Prevention and Control of Public Expenditure with the aim of promoting policies, guidelines and mechanisms to address the challenges of ethics, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of investment and public spending.
With great interest, the president also created the Office of Ethics and Government Integrity, a body headed by the former vice president, Milagros Ortiz Bosch, and as executive, Carlos Pimentel, director of public procurement.
The two officials believe it is necessary to study the validity of the delivery of 100 million pesos that were distributed to musicians, office staff and technicians. As the conductor, Ramon Orlando, said, “we can’t go back anymore.” It will be seen from now on how to correct the misdemeanor.
Francisco Antonio Peña guaba, who heads the Social Policy Coordination Cabinet, GCPS, laughed at the press convened for the occasion the checks on the artists, but there was criticism on social media and the whipping of some artists.
Penya guaba, in the least of the cases, risked its place if it was determined that the delivery to the artists of these 100 million pesos was not appropriate, for future concerts especially because among the beneficiaries are government officials who times are artists. The case recalled the sale for more than RD $ 47 million made by the Ministry of Education to a lady in Los Peralejos, National District, during the administration of Minister Carlos Amarante Baret. Although the person was subjected and sentenced to a lesser sentence, the money was not recovered.