President Abinader will close the year well, but in a hurry because of the pandemic, hasty cancellations from officials and because one unit approved without consultation the idea of hiring a group of popular musicians for 100 million pesos.
Abinader has nothing to do with these events, but rather they are the work of the circumstances, the members of his cabinet, who apparently did not consider the guidelines in his speeches, both during the election campaign and after August 16.
The rebellion of a violent minority hurts the president. Young people, in particular, are now the majority of those infected with COVID-19 that has set the country on fire for a predicted pandemic outbreak that threatens to collapse hospitals.
President Abinader does not know what words to address the public so that they understand the gravity of the situation and has had to maintain the state of emergency already imposed by the previous government and recently made sanitation measures more flexible.
In two streams, that of many business people and the tourism sector who want the economy to open wide, the scientists and the Dominican Medical College who propose to tighten the current regulations, the president tries to please everyone, thinking of the good of it country.
The president announced that the country will be one of the first to start vaccinating between countries in the region. The Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña, reported that the initial payment for the first shipment of vaccines is $ 8 million. It aims to provide vaccines for 10 million people.
With the controlled opening the economy has had, the Central Bank says remittances have risen during the year, inflation has remained with slight changes from January-November, and the increase in government debt is due to the pandemic . .
The BC reports that the consumer price index, CPI, registered a variation of 0.60% in the month of November compared to October 2020 and emphasizes that when considering the analytical series of the new reference base, the interannual inflation, measured from November 2019 to November 2020 it was at 4.40.
Cancellations
In recent weeks, there have been many cancellations from workers and civil servants, especially at the Ministry of Education, with 39,500 workers being laid off, as published yesterday by the Diario Libre.
The country has changed a lot. In the Trujillo era, there were no cancellations at Christmas, although the disaffected of that regime suffered a worse fate than the layoffs. The practice of not kicking people out of their posts at Christmas was followed during the Balaguer regimes.
Apparently the Secretary of Education, Roberto Fulcar, is a psychorigid man. He has not explained why so many clerical workers have been fired, if it was because he felt payrolls were overloaded or that they are people retiring.
Balaguer was astute after taking power in his last 10-year spell, after defeating the Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD, drawing up his plan based on reports of alleged corruption perpetrated in the government of his predecessor Dr. Jorge Blanco.
For these purposes, the old cazurro used his then-Controller General, José Antonio Guzmán Álvarez, with whom he appeared on television to explain in detail what had happened, in an attempt to bury the PRD forever, who would later match him. to be declared ‘father of the land’. .
During the PRD regime in 1963, the phrase “the steamroller” was coined, given to Doña Thelma Frías de Rodríguez, the dynamic senator of the National District and responsible for the layoffs. She could never get over that bad memory.
Abinader still stands up
Despite the apparent setbacks in the strategy against the growth of COVID-19, the president continues his high popularity because the majority who elected him are confident in his promise of change and because indirectly the “anti-octopus operation” benefits him. would come.
But the president has details in his favor, such as the case of the visit that his wife, Raquel Arbaje, made to a dying photographer at the cancer hospital and sent him a message asking for help or at least his visit. . She visited him and they prayed, but the case was terminal and a few hours later he died, causing her great pain.
Human interest news, a genre widely regarded in journalism, has led the current pandemic to include brave doctors and nurses, family members who have lost grandparents and parents, and the long lines of people begging for bread in the De United States has gained space in the written press and on television. Last Monday, the president established the Cabinet for Transparency, Prevention, and Control of Government Spending with the goal of advancing policies, guidelines and mechanisms to address the challenges of ethics, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of investment and government spending.
With great interest, the president also established the Office of Government Ethics and Integrity, a body headed by the former vice president, Milagros Ortíz Bosch, and as executive director Carlos Pimentel, director of public procurement.
The two officials believe the validity of the 100 million peso supply distributed to musicians, office workers and technicians should be investigated. According to the conductor, Ramón Orlando, “we can’t send them back.” From now on it will be seen how the error can be corrected.
Francisco Antonio Peña Guaba, head of the cabinet for social policy coordination, GCPS, smiled and handed the checks to the artists before the press called for the occasion, but there was criticism of social networks and the whip of some artists.
Peña Guaba risked his position in the smallest cases if it was determined that the supply to the artists of those 100 million pesos was inappropriate for future concerts, especially since among the beneficiaries are government officials who are simultaneously artists. The case recalled the sale of more than RD $ 47 million made by the Ministry of Education to a woman 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.