“It seemed to me that I came to govern as if I were in the box of blows and before I went to beat the bat has three weights,” said President Luis Abinader, referring to the economic and health crisis in which the country was at taking power. .
The president spoke during a service held in the San Rafael chapel of the National Palace for the day of the Virgin of Altagracia, where he asked God and the virgin that if he is wrong, he can rectify, because “I think this is one of the attitudes he must have not only a leader, but also that he must have a country ”.
“I told some Spanish friends a few days ago and using a term baseball that I don’t know much, that it seemed to me that I came to rule as if I were in the box, before hitting (. ..) before going home. I already had the bat, the bat had three weights … Three weights, when it is governed normally is when you go without weights with a bat to bat, and these three weights are crisis, pandemic, with its consequence in crisis economic crisis and deep moral crisis in this country among many others “, said the head of state.
Abinader described himself as a devout Catholic and lamented that due to the pandemic, this day cannot be commemorated as usual, noting that for the first time in 50 years there is no activity in Higuey Basilica, reflecting the difficult situation in which is the country.
“Thank you for agreeing to be with us in this chapel of the National Palace. Since 2011, Raquel and I have been in the habit of going to the Basilica and we never miss a year every January 21, it has become a habit, we Catholics, both she who studied at the Apostolate school, and we, who we studied at Loyola school and we were, at least in our case, we were at the Mariano movement at school, because we always had our devotion ”.
The president asked God to help him continue to work so that the country could get the coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible.
“Today, on January 21, I am in this situation, what I ask of God the Virgin is to help us continue to work to continue working so that together with all international organizations, with all the logistics, with all the international solidarity and with all the efforts made by this government to be able to get the vaccine as soon as possible and in the meantime to take care of ourselves and especially the elderly who are the ones who can suffer the most if they get this terrible pandemic that has affected true so much “.
Abinader called on the Dominicans to continue to be a friendly and expressive, supportive people, but without ceasing to care against the coronavirus.