Danilo Medina should break with power structures
Political scientists suggest the "big challenges" that the new President-elect will have to face
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SANTO DOMINGO. Once he is sworn in at the head of the nation's destiny, next 16 August, the new President-elect, Danilo Medina, will be face to face with social problems which bring up big challenges, and in order to be able to deal with some of them, he will have to break with some of the current power structures.
This thought is from political scientist Daniel Pou, and he bases it on the fact that the new President has to bring about a 180 degree turn around to two fundamental pillars, which, to his way of seeing things, are the state of law and the eradication of impunity.
"Licentiate Danilo Medina speaks of a radical policy of transparency in the handling of public funds and this is going to bringing about the necessary break with many of the political actors which at this moment are at a crucial moment, and they are present on the Dominican political scene.
He has this challenge, and I believe that a large part of the sectors that supported him have their expectations in which those levels of impunity do not continue to happen," says Pou, who seems convinced that Medina is willing to pay the necessary quotas to clean up the Dominican institutional life.
As a matter of fact, he feels that the speech last Monday by the big winner of Sunday's election fight, is the continuation of what was his campaign speech and campaign proposal, based on a government of integration and equality.
To the contrary is the thinking of another political scientist, Jose Antinoe Fiallo, who sees no way for substantive changes to take place with regard to the national problems with the new face that the Dominican Liberation Party will bring to govern the country.
Although Medina speaks of humility to govern, and demands this quality in the close-knit ring that surrounds him in this work, Antinoe Fiallo thinks that he should take on two other concepts: Justice and Equality.
"I believe that the speed does not go towards a substantial transformation of the social system, and if you do not dare to say that the social system is unfair, that it has to be transformed and produce a different system; if you do not utilize these concepts and you fear them, then the discourse only remains a "light" collision which does not get to the bottom of things," he said.
For the professor, the challenges of the new President should be to carry out radical transformations, which deal above all with the prevailing inequalities that such as the uneven distribution of resources.
Medina will also take the pulse in economic terms and according to Pou, his greatest priority will be to maintain the economic stability shown during the current administration of President Leonel Fernandez. Conscious of the difficult crisis situation and of a deficit that is considered to be in "huge numbers," the great feat that he suggests is that of reducing and maintaining the control of public spending.
More than 4%
Another aspect about which expectation are emerging is the issue of education. Medina as a candidate signed a pact with social sectors that argue for 4% of the GDP for education.
Antinoe Fiallo feels that the problem is not in the number, but rather in the way the issues is approached, which until now has focused on generating competitive persons in order to continue making money among the most wealthy. The professor feels that the curriculum has to be readjusted in order for them to take into account the interests and the needs of the poorer majority, in order for it to be more inclusive.
This thought is from political scientist Daniel Pou, and he bases it on the fact that the new President has to bring about a 180 degree turn around to two fundamental pillars, which, to his way of seeing things, are the state of law and the eradication of impunity.
"Licentiate Danilo Medina speaks of a radical policy of transparency in the handling of public funds and this is going to bringing about the necessary break with many of the political actors which at this moment are at a crucial moment, and they are present on the Dominican political scene.
He has this challenge, and I believe that a large part of the sectors that supported him have their expectations in which those levels of impunity do not continue to happen," says Pou, who seems convinced that Medina is willing to pay the necessary quotas to clean up the Dominican institutional life.
As a matter of fact, he feels that the speech last Monday by the big winner of Sunday's election fight, is the continuation of what was his campaign speech and campaign proposal, based on a government of integration and equality.
To the contrary is the thinking of another political scientist, Jose Antinoe Fiallo, who sees no way for substantive changes to take place with regard to the national problems with the new face that the Dominican Liberation Party will bring to govern the country.
Although Medina speaks of humility to govern, and demands this quality in the close-knit ring that surrounds him in this work, Antinoe Fiallo thinks that he should take on two other concepts: Justice and Equality.
"I believe that the speed does not go towards a substantial transformation of the social system, and if you do not dare to say that the social system is unfair, that it has to be transformed and produce a different system; if you do not utilize these concepts and you fear them, then the discourse only remains a "light" collision which does not get to the bottom of things," he said.
For the professor, the challenges of the new President should be to carry out radical transformations, which deal above all with the prevailing inequalities that such as the uneven distribution of resources.
Medina will also take the pulse in economic terms and according to Pou, his greatest priority will be to maintain the economic stability shown during the current administration of President Leonel Fernandez. Conscious of the difficult crisis situation and of a deficit that is considered to be in "huge numbers," the great feat that he suggests is that of reducing and maintaining the control of public spending.
More than 4%
Another aspect about which expectation are emerging is the issue of education. Medina as a candidate signed a pact with social sectors that argue for 4% of the GDP for education.
Antinoe Fiallo feels that the problem is not in the number, but rather in the way the issues is approached, which until now has focused on generating competitive persons in order to continue making money among the most wealthy. The professor feels that the curriculum has to be readjusted in order for them to take into account the interests and the needs of the poorer majority, in order for it to be more inclusive.
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