{"id":499111,"date":"2026-02-01T17:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/leonel-accuses-the-prm-of-bankrupting-local-producers-and-warns-this-time-we-either-all-play-or-the-deck-breaks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:58:26","slug":"leonel-accuses-the-prm-of-bankrupting-local-producers-and-warns-this-time-we-either-all-play-or-the-deck-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/leonel-accuses-the-prm-of-bankrupting-local-producers-and-warns-this-time-we-either-all-play-or-the-deck-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonel accuses the PRM of bankrupting local producers and warns: \u201cThis time we either all play or the deck breaks\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo, D. N.<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 The president of the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP), Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez,<\/strong> accused the government of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) of bankrupting national producers through policies that, according to him, favor imports from sectors linked to the ruling party to the detriment of local production, which has affected the rise in the cost of food and the weakening of the country’s productive apparatus.\n\nThe statements were offered after the swearing-in of Jos\u00e9 del Castillo Savi\u00f1\u00f3n and his political team as new members of the Fuerza del Pueblo. Before beginning his speech, Fern\u00e1ndez asked those present to observe a minute of silence in honor of the deceased former president of the Senate of the Republic and officialist leader, Ram\u00f3n Alburquerque.\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>: Omar Fern\u00e1ndez surpasses Leonel in presidential preference, according to survey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWhen referring to the economic situation, the opposition leader pointed out the increase in the prices of basic products such as chicken and eggs, considering that this is a problem that should not be repeated in the Dominican Republic and that demonstrates the Government’s inability to guarantee food security.\n\n\u201cToday, when I look at the newspapers, I find on the front page a complaint that we shouldn’t have: again, a shortage of chicken and eggs in the Dominican Republic. The price of a pound of chicken has risen again to 125 pesos. When we talk about something as basic as the food of the Dominican people and these products become inaccessible, social unrest begins. The Government has not known how to solve this issue, nor others related to food,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez expressed.\n\nHe recalled that, in similar situations, the Government chose to authorize the import of chicken without the payment of tariffs, a measure which, in his opinion, ended up harming national producers.\n\n“The import of chicken from Brazil was authorized without paying customs duties. At first glance, it may seem reasonable, but in doing so, national producers are affected, who lose incentives to increase production. Therefore, that idea failed,” he maintained.\n\nIn contrast, Fern\u00e1ndez explained what the correct policy would have been from the perspective of Fuerza del Pueblo, focused on strengthening national production. “Instead of importing chicken without tariffs, we would have authorized the import of corn, soy, and vitamins for poultry production. That would have allowed us to increase national production, lower prices, and support Dominican producers,” he indicated.\n\nThe political leader asserted that this problem is not limited to the poultry sector, but rather responds to an economic policy that has relegated the country’s productive sectors. He pointed out that, when the PRM assumed the Government in 2020, agricultural imports were around 3 billion dollars, while they currently exceed 7 billion, which, according to him, has benefited importers linked to the circles of power.\n\nIn the final part of his speech, Fern\u00e1ndez addressed the electoral issue and called for respecting the integrity of democratic processes, denouncing the misuse of state resources for proselitizing purposes.\n\n\n

\u201cThey already did it by buying mayors and co-opting councilors to win the February elections and project that they would win in May. Then we saw reports about the use of Aerodom funds and now it is said that SeNaSa resources were used for the campaign,\u201d<\/strong> he stated.<\/p>\n\n\nHe also expressed concern about the possibility of the ruling party attempting to repeat these practices in the run-up to the 2028 elections. “We are concerned that the Solid Waste Law will be used to channel resources to mayors and ensure electoral victories. This time it will not be like that, because we are not going to allow it. As Juan Bosch said: either we all play or the deck is broken,” he concluded.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo, D. N. \u2013 The president of the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP), Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, accused the government of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) of bankrupting national producers through policies that, according to him, favor imports from sectors linked to the ruling party to the detriment of local production, which has affected the rise in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[40216],"tags":[711,1220],"class_list":["post-499111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-leonel-fernandez","tag-prm"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25Qb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499111","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}