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04-28-2010, 05:00 PM
Economist Bernardo Vega explained today the reasons why he understands the PLD has a comfortable lead over the PRD into the congressional and municipal election.
Interviewed on El Dia on TV, Vega said that the hundreds of thousands of Dominicans who depend on government jobs and welfare programs, the weakness of the opposition, and an improvement in the economy work in favor of the ruling PLD party's men and women's bid for re-election in their posts and an increase in municipal and congressional posts. He said this has had more influence than the widespread feeling that corruption, crime and drug trafficking are on the rise with government complicity, as reported in El Caribe.
Vega said that it is obvious that a large number of voters depend on the government, either for being on the bloated government payroll, or receiving Solidarity and Bono Luz welfare programs.
He said that the PRD has not been able to run a critical campaign, because of the corruption in the Hipolito Mejia government that makes the PRD vulnerable to lawsuits. "Then there is a sort of agreement to not take either to court and that weakens the PRD as an opposition party," said the historian and economist.
Vega also says that the increased foreign and domestic borrowing has created a perception that the economy has improved, and there is an increase in public works underway, creating jobs.
He said the present electoral campaign is void of debates and ideas. He wondered who is more to the left or the right, the PRD or the PLD, and wondered why the issue of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, the gold mine, corruption cases, Sun Land, relations with Haiti, whether we will be part of Chavez's schemes or not, are not issues to be debated in the campaign, and there is no topic of importance being discussed that he is aware of.
Penn, Schoen and Berland has forecast a comfortable win for the leading candidates of the ruling PLD party.
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Interviewed on El Dia on TV, Vega said that the hundreds of thousands of Dominicans who depend on government jobs and welfare programs, the weakness of the opposition, and an improvement in the economy work in favor of the ruling PLD party's men and women's bid for re-election in their posts and an increase in municipal and congressional posts. He said this has had more influence than the widespread feeling that corruption, crime and drug trafficking are on the rise with government complicity, as reported in El Caribe.
Vega said that it is obvious that a large number of voters depend on the government, either for being on the bloated government payroll, or receiving Solidarity and Bono Luz welfare programs.
He said that the PRD has not been able to run a critical campaign, because of the corruption in the Hipolito Mejia government that makes the PRD vulnerable to lawsuits. "Then there is a sort of agreement to not take either to court and that weakens the PRD as an opposition party," said the historian and economist.
Vega also says that the increased foreign and domestic borrowing has created a perception that the economy has improved, and there is an increase in public works underway, creating jobs.
He said the present electoral campaign is void of debates and ideas. He wondered who is more to the left or the right, the PRD or the PLD, and wondered why the issue of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, the gold mine, corruption cases, Sun Land, relations with Haiti, whether we will be part of Chavez's schemes or not, are not issues to be debated in the campaign, and there is no topic of importance being discussed that he is aware of.
Penn, Schoen and Berland has forecast a comfortable win for the leading candidates of the ruling PLD party.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)