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12-21-2006, 05:00 PM
President Leonel Fernandez continued to avoid discussion of his possible re-election while he was distributing Christmas boxes in San Cristobal yesterday to the tune of re-election merengues. The government has announced that they will be donating a total of 747,000 boxes nationwide.
Fernandez personally handed out the gift boxes, which included basic food supplies, and mingled and conversed with the locals. Fernandez was met with much support and signs that called for his re-election, and in some cases the President was kissed and hugged by some of his supporters. Fernandez was quoted in El Caribe newspaper as saying that this shows that he has public support and that the public understands and appreciates the work the PLD is doing to get the country moving. The President visited San Cristobal, Elias Pina, San Juan de la Maguana, Azua and Peravia and is scheduled to visit Santiago Rodriguez, Dajabon, Mao, Navarrete, Santiago and Montecristi today. The boxes cost RD$1,000 each. Accompanying Fernandez on his trip was Felix Bautista, Director of the Office of Supervising Engineers for Public Works, Public Works Minister Freddy Perez, Education Minister Alejandrina Guzman, and Luis Acosta Moreta, Director of the office for Community Development.
The PRSC and the Joaquin Balaguer Foundation are also be handing out Christmas boxes to more than 100,000 families this Christmas season. The boxes will cost an estimated RD$1 million and Rafael Bello Andino, who heads the foundation, says that PRSC members gave part of their Christmas bonuses to help prepare the boxes. The distribution will begin on Friday and the PRSC says they hope to maintain a tradition continued by the late former President Balaguer for more than four decades.
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Fernandez personally handed out the gift boxes, which included basic food supplies, and mingled and conversed with the locals. Fernandez was met with much support and signs that called for his re-election, and in some cases the President was kissed and hugged by some of his supporters. Fernandez was quoted in El Caribe newspaper as saying that this shows that he has public support and that the public understands and appreciates the work the PLD is doing to get the country moving. The President visited San Cristobal, Elias Pina, San Juan de la Maguana, Azua and Peravia and is scheduled to visit Santiago Rodriguez, Dajabon, Mao, Navarrete, Santiago and Montecristi today. The boxes cost RD$1,000 each. Accompanying Fernandez on his trip was Felix Bautista, Director of the Office of Supervising Engineers for Public Works, Public Works Minister Freddy Perez, Education Minister Alejandrina Guzman, and Luis Acosta Moreta, Director of the office for Community Development.
The PRSC and the Joaquin Balaguer Foundation are also be handing out Christmas boxes to more than 100,000 families this Christmas season. The boxes will cost an estimated RD$1 million and Rafael Bello Andino, who heads the foundation, says that PRSC members gave part of their Christmas bonuses to help prepare the boxes. The distribution will begin on Friday and the PRSC says they hope to maintain a tradition continued by the late former President Balaguer for more than four decades.
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