Minou: "I will not be the running mate on Luis Abinader's ticket. The PRM is the PRD"
Diario Libre
SD. The independent deputy Minerva (Minou) Tavarez Mirabal denied the rumor that she might be the running mate on the ticket of presidential candidate Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), and she alleged that this party is "just more of the same."
The following is a transcript of the interview she gave Diario Libre.
Q. Do you think that the election of Luis Abinader as the presidential candidate of the PRM might unify the opposition? Do you think that this might send the message from those who want new figures?
A. I believe evidently that a change is coming about in the country. This can be appreciated at all levels and in all corners of the country. A need of the people to have hope, of recovering the expectations can be felt, and this opens space for new and different options.
In this sense I believe that the definition of the internal situation will also benefit from these aspirations. It seems to me that it will be a little quick to establish this because in no way is the PRM a new option. The PRM is the PRD, the division of the PRD and in fact what they are doing at this time, the first declarations of the candidate are precisely that he is going to seek a reunification of the PRD. Then to talk about something new given the proposals such as this is a little removed from the reality that we have.
This reflects that the PRM is part of the old party system whose offers are worn out and they have had the direct responsibility of the administration of the different governments that are those that have carried the country to where we are today.
Q. How is your political project going?
A. Well, for five months we have been working on the "Democratic Option." We have visited nearly the whole country. We are in the process of the final part of collecting the signatures in order to request recognition by the Central Electoral Board (JCE).
Q. There are rumors that you will be the running mate on the ticket of Luis Abinader.
A. No those are just rumors without any basis.
Q. It has gone so far that the social networks propose you together with other ladies as good options for the vice presidency.
A. I am not involved in this nor do I have any idea and what I am doing is working in order to build a new option, a democratic option, committed to cleaning up politics, committed to the recovery of institutionalism and democracy. Committed with being a platform to carry candidates in 2016 who are persons who are decent, honest and committed to a better functioning of the Dominican State, of the country, of democracy. Committed to an independent justice system, fighting corruption and impunity in the country.
One of the principal statements we have in Democratic Option is that political campaigns should not be a "war of money." We have to do something to deal with the culture that exists.
Q. Then you would not be open to an agreement with one of the traditional parties are with accompanying the ticket of some traditional party?
A. We are not growing with the vocation of solitude. We are doing what we have to do in order to produce the changes that the country needs.
Now we are working to convert ourselves into an option. We are not working in order to become candidates that the others need, in order to strengthen their projects. This is not our vocation.
Q. The problem of the minority parties is that they become parasites because they adhere themselves to the traditional parties...
A. Ahh, well, but nobody will suspect that this danger might occur in an organization pushed by myself. Minou Tavarez Mirabal has never given signs that she is in politics for business, in order to fight for favors or to find positions. That there are parties that have become "hinges" or that were born with this vocation doesn't mean that everybody who goes into politics will do this.
The following is a transcript of the interview she gave Diario Libre.
Q. Do you think that the election of Luis Abinader as the presidential candidate of the PRM might unify the opposition? Do you think that this might send the message from those who want new figures?
A. I believe evidently that a change is coming about in the country. This can be appreciated at all levels and in all corners of the country. A need of the people to have hope, of recovering the expectations can be felt, and this opens space for new and different options.
In this sense I believe that the definition of the internal situation will also benefit from these aspirations. It seems to me that it will be a little quick to establish this because in no way is the PRM a new option. The PRM is the PRD, the division of the PRD and in fact what they are doing at this time, the first declarations of the candidate are precisely that he is going to seek a reunification of the PRD. Then to talk about something new given the proposals such as this is a little removed from the reality that we have.
This reflects that the PRM is part of the old party system whose offers are worn out and they have had the direct responsibility of the administration of the different governments that are those that have carried the country to where we are today.
Q. How is your political project going?
A. Well, for five months we have been working on the "Democratic Option." We have visited nearly the whole country. We are in the process of the final part of collecting the signatures in order to request recognition by the Central Electoral Board (JCE).
Q. There are rumors that you will be the running mate on the ticket of Luis Abinader.
A. No those are just rumors without any basis.
Q. It has gone so far that the social networks propose you together with other ladies as good options for the vice presidency.
A. I am not involved in this nor do I have any idea and what I am doing is working in order to build a new option, a democratic option, committed to cleaning up politics, committed to the recovery of institutionalism and democracy. Committed with being a platform to carry candidates in 2016 who are persons who are decent, honest and committed to a better functioning of the Dominican State, of the country, of democracy. Committed to an independent justice system, fighting corruption and impunity in the country.
One of the principal statements we have in Democratic Option is that political campaigns should not be a "war of money." We have to do something to deal with the culture that exists.
Q. Then you would not be open to an agreement with one of the traditional parties are with accompanying the ticket of some traditional party?
A. We are not growing with the vocation of solitude. We are doing what we have to do in order to produce the changes that the country needs.
Now we are working to convert ourselves into an option. We are not working in order to become candidates that the others need, in order to strengthen their projects. This is not our vocation.
Q. The problem of the minority parties is that they become parasites because they adhere themselves to the traditional parties...
A. Ahh, well, but nobody will suspect that this danger might occur in an organization pushed by myself. Minou Tavarez Mirabal has never given signs that she is in politics for business, in order to fight for favors or to find positions. That there are parties that have become "hinges" or that were born with this vocation doesn't mean that everybody who goes into politics will do this.
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