NewsWhore
02-26-2007, 04:30 PM
President Leonel Fernandez is scheduled to deliver the annual state of the nation speech on Tuesday, 27 February.
The occasion has traditionally been used for the President to review the government's performance over the previous year. President Fernandez, for the first time, will be speaking before a PLD-majority Congress.
While the PLD is majority in Congress, the party itself is divided among supporters of presidential relection and those that back Danilo Medina, the former secretary of the Presidency and right hand to the President, to be the PLD candidate in the 2008 election.
Diario Libre points out that the President may or may not present the constitutional reform bill to which he has dedicated so much of his time.
Diario Libre also points out that these are also times when increased taxes levied by the government to help pay for the metro construction and the hypertrophied and inefficient government bureaucracy are penalizing business, the DR-CAFTA has not yet gone into effect, free zone industries are shutting down, and there is an increase in crime.
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The occasion has traditionally been used for the President to review the government's performance over the previous year. President Fernandez, for the first time, will be speaking before a PLD-majority Congress.
While the PLD is majority in Congress, the party itself is divided among supporters of presidential relection and those that back Danilo Medina, the former secretary of the Presidency and right hand to the President, to be the PLD candidate in the 2008 election.
Diario Libre points out that the President may or may not present the constitutional reform bill to which he has dedicated so much of his time.
Diario Libre also points out that these are also times when increased taxes levied by the government to help pay for the metro construction and the hypertrophied and inefficient government bureaucracy are penalizing business, the DR-CAFTA has not yet gone into effect, free zone industries are shutting down, and there is an increase in crime.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)