Santo Domingo. — The political leader Tomás Hernández Alberto stated that in the Dominican Republic “nowadays you can buy more with the salary than what you could buy four years ago”, referring to the impact of salary increases compared to inflation, during the special broadcast of the newspaper De Último Minuto.
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The leader acknowledged that in the last year there was an economic slowdown, but considered that the data cannot be analyzed in isolation. “Denying that there was a decline in economic growth would not be the logic of a political leader,” he stated. However, he indicated that this behavior was similar to the average in Latin America. “Now we grew 2.1, but the international 2.2. It’s true that it’s not what we would have liked to have, but it’s also true that other measurable aspects tell us that this decline did not affect our situation so deeply,” he stated. Among those aspects, he mentioned the good performance in foreign exchange, remittances, tourism, free zones, and the agricultural sector. “Despite these difficulties, the country continued to move forward,” he pointed out, after noting that there was no halt in the execution of public works. Regarding the political landscape, he maintained that the president’s popularity remains at favorable levels. “The president’s popularity remains, I would say, at comfortable levels still,” he pointed out, although he admitted that “the same popularity of the government is not desirable, but it’s also good.”
