Leonel Fernandez, the street vendor

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PRD party spokesman Christian Paredes has said that President Leonel Fernandez is in no position to negotiate agreements on taxes and compared him to street vendor, saying that he is like a person who asks you for RD$1,000 for a product and ends up selling it to you for RD$100. Paredes, quoted in El Caribe newspaper, was referring to the recent agreement between the government and Verizon Dominican which allows Verizon to pay US$170 million in capital gains tax instead of the US$500 million that the government originally asked for. Paredes said that the taxes that Verizon had to pay weren't being demanded by Fernandez or the Tax Department, but by the Dominican public.

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