{"id":495557,"date":"2025-12-23T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/leonel-fernandez-qualifies-2025-as-one-of-the-worst-years-for-the-dominican-republic\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:45:26","slug":"leonel-fernandez-qualifies-2025-as-one-of-the-worst-years-for-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/leonel-fernandez-qualifies-2025-as-one-of-the-worst-years-for-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez qualifies 2025 as “one of the worst years” for the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"Santiago<\/strong>.- The former president of the Republic and president of the Fuerza del Pueblo party, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, stated this Tuesday in Santiago that the year 2025 has been one of the most difficult the Dominican Republic has experienced, considering that in the same period, corruption scandals, social crisis, and serious economic difficulties that have affected large sectors of the population coincided.\n\n

Fern\u00e1ndez <\/a>maintained that the country closes the year with a panorama marked by economic slowdown, blackouts, scarcity of drinking water, unemployment and the high cost of living, factors that, in his opinion, have impacted the households with lower incomes with greater harshness. <\/p>\n\n\n

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“All the evils came together at the same time,” said the opposition leader.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe former president also questioned the management of several public institutions and cited as an example the situation of the National Health Insurance (Senasa), which he said adds to the elements that tarnish the end of 2025.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: Leonel calls Senasa fraud a “national tragedy”<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nDespite the critical diagnosis, Fern\u00e1ndez was moderately optimistic about the country’s immediate future, noting that although the year that ends “couldn’t have been worse<\/strong>“, he maintains confidence that 2026 will allow the country to get back on track and generate better conditions for the population. “We have faith in the future<\/strong>“, he stated.\n\nThe statements were made after leading the delivery of Christmas boxes to senior citizens at the San Vicente de Pa\u00fal Hospice, an activity that is part of a tradition that the former governor carries out in Santiago during the Christmas season, with the aim of bringing food to low-income families.\n\nFern\u00e1ndez indicated that during tours of sectors such as Villa Ol\u00edmpica, Cienfuegos and Pueblo Nuevo, he perceived expressions of gratitude for the donations, noting that these initiatives seek to alleviate, even if only momentarily, the difficulties faced by many Dominican families.\n\n\n

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Santiago.- The former president of the Republic and president of the Fuerza del Pueblo party, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, stated this Tuesday in Santiago that the year 2025 has been one of the most difficult the Dominican Republic has experienced, considering that in the same period, corruption scandals, social crisis, and serious economic difficulties that have affected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24UR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}