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07-26-2011, 02:20 PM
Just another speech, laden with promises typical of any political campaign, was the general assessment of President Leonel Fernandez's speech last Sunday in his role as PLD president, Diario Libre reports.
Criticisms from opposition political parties and the Catholic Church upheld a rejection of the leader's comments. The lead was taken by PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, the subject of a strong attack by Fernandez, who disqualified him from governing the country again. Mejia described Fernandez as the "magician of the lies."
"But it seems that he does not live in this country where the people want and demand citizen security. It seems as if he (Fernandez) is not in this country, he appears to be living in another country," Mejia said.
Mejia was President from 2000-2004. President Fernandez has been President since 2004 to present.
He commented that the President gave statistics and compared the country with other nations as if "we were better off than in Europe or in the United States."
"I think that the only one he did not mention was China, because it would shame him to compare us to China, but the truth is that he is a guy that you have to call a liar," he said, adding that the Fernandez's support for Danilo Medina turned Medina into more of the same thing.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez described the speech as an answer to the accusations that the opposition and sectors of society are directing at his economic policy. He said that by speaking as the president of the PLD, all the leader did was to explain what he has done and what he is doing to deal with the difficult international situation that affects the country.
When he answered a question on whether or not the speech had satisfied public expectations, the Catholic prelate answered by calling on all people to consider the international situation and that of the country and decide whether or not there exists the capacity to provide an answer to the demands.
Guillermo Moreno, the presidential candidate for Alianza Pais, said that the speech showed that the Fernandez administration has remained frozen in the past and has nothing new to offer the citizens. In Moreno's judgment he (Fernandez) was trying to manipulate the citizenry, because both the PLD as well as the PRD rank and file are responsible for the chaos, the lack of security, the corruption and the inequality that he says are predominant in the country.
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Criticisms from opposition political parties and the Catholic Church upheld a rejection of the leader's comments. The lead was taken by PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, the subject of a strong attack by Fernandez, who disqualified him from governing the country again. Mejia described Fernandez as the "magician of the lies."
"But it seems that he does not live in this country where the people want and demand citizen security. It seems as if he (Fernandez) is not in this country, he appears to be living in another country," Mejia said.
Mejia was President from 2000-2004. President Fernandez has been President since 2004 to present.
He commented that the President gave statistics and compared the country with other nations as if "we were better off than in Europe or in the United States."
"I think that the only one he did not mention was China, because it would shame him to compare us to China, but the truth is that he is a guy that you have to call a liar," he said, adding that the Fernandez's support for Danilo Medina turned Medina into more of the same thing.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez described the speech as an answer to the accusations that the opposition and sectors of society are directing at his economic policy. He said that by speaking as the president of the PLD, all the leader did was to explain what he has done and what he is doing to deal with the difficult international situation that affects the country.
When he answered a question on whether or not the speech had satisfied public expectations, the Catholic prelate answered by calling on all people to consider the international situation and that of the country and decide whether or not there exists the capacity to provide an answer to the demands.
Guillermo Moreno, the presidential candidate for Alianza Pais, said that the speech showed that the Fernandez administration has remained frozen in the past and has nothing new to offer the citizens. In Moreno's judgment he (Fernandez) was trying to manipulate the citizenry, because both the PLD as well as the PRD rank and file are responsible for the chaos, the lack of security, the corruption and the inequality that he says are predominant in the country.
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