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12-13-2006, 01:50 PM
Businessman Luis Arthur comments on the ruling PLD party's four leading presidential pre-candidates in his column in today's El Caribe. He explains that they are Leonel Fernandez, who he describes as the "President who talks pretty", and who until recently was the most accepted within the party and beyond, but who after the fiscal reform bill proposal ("that will not affect anyone") and former Presidency Minister Danilo Medina's untimely exit from government, "appears that his re-election chances are very diminished."
Next he focuses on Danilo Medina, who he describes as a capable young strategist who has difficulties in publicly communicating the message he wants to get across. And who as a candidate in 2000, "due to the wasting of the government in which he served for four years as super-minister and his limited eloquence, unfortunately lost against the PRD candidate who brought disaster for the country, worse than a tsunami."
Arthur explains that Medina is in the position where after repeating his previous post for two years in the 2004-2008 Fernandez administration, cannot wash his hands clean of what he describes as the "endless list of mistakes, inefficiency and ineffectivity that has come to public light."
Then there is Jaime David Fernandez, who he comments seems to be popular, but is not active. "He is a strong contender, but the general perception is that "his heart isn't in it."
Fourth on the list is Jose Tomas Perez, who he comments did a good job as senator, but inexplicably, the party chose not to back him again for a repeat in the post. He mentions that Perez is keeping a low profile, so as not to burn out early, and seems to be working quietly inside the party before seeking the candidacy.
Arthur points out that the PLD is governing badly, "not that it is worse than the previous PRD government - there is no comparison - but before such a disaster they promised so much and filled the country with expectations, that the achievements of economic stability are tarnished in the face of so much inefficiency and absence of solutions for the basic and important problems such as electricity, education and health."
He concludes: "Once again, the country is filled with uncertainty. Prices are increasing, people are distressed, and we fear having to tread a road we already walked, under a PLD that looks more like the PRD, and Leonel like Hipolito every day. He who speaks pretty is failing us."
He worries that with the wasting of the parties, anything could happen here, "the PRD might come back, or Candelier could slip in."
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Next he focuses on Danilo Medina, who he describes as a capable young strategist who has difficulties in publicly communicating the message he wants to get across. And who as a candidate in 2000, "due to the wasting of the government in which he served for four years as super-minister and his limited eloquence, unfortunately lost against the PRD candidate who brought disaster for the country, worse than a tsunami."
Arthur explains that Medina is in the position where after repeating his previous post for two years in the 2004-2008 Fernandez administration, cannot wash his hands clean of what he describes as the "endless list of mistakes, inefficiency and ineffectivity that has come to public light."
Then there is Jaime David Fernandez, who he comments seems to be popular, but is not active. "He is a strong contender, but the general perception is that "his heart isn't in it."
Fourth on the list is Jose Tomas Perez, who he comments did a good job as senator, but inexplicably, the party chose not to back him again for a repeat in the post. He mentions that Perez is keeping a low profile, so as not to burn out early, and seems to be working quietly inside the party before seeking the candidacy.
Arthur points out that the PLD is governing badly, "not that it is worse than the previous PRD government - there is no comparison - but before such a disaster they promised so much and filled the country with expectations, that the achievements of economic stability are tarnished in the face of so much inefficiency and absence of solutions for the basic and important problems such as electricity, education and health."
He concludes: "Once again, the country is filled with uncertainty. Prices are increasing, people are distressed, and we fear having to tread a road we already walked, under a PLD that looks more like the PRD, and Leonel like Hipolito every day. He who speaks pretty is failing us."
He worries that with the wasting of the parties, anything could happen here, "the PRD might come back, or Candelier could slip in."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)