Five months ago, President Luis Abinader took over the power, a period marked by ambitious initiatives to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
The access to health for all, with the announcement that more than one million people will be integrated into the Senate, the salary increase for police and military, the contribution of 100 million people and artists, the provision of strict measures to avoid propagation of the coronavirus, the focus on tourism, the economy, relations with Haiti and, most recently, the National Plan of Viviendas, some of the points he characterized in Gobierno during this period.
Viviendas
In its promise of living values for every Dominican, the 13th of January, the mandate presented the National Plan of Living “Happy Family”, with the plan impacting 61,000 families in four years.
This project presents the construction of 11 miles of new living only in the first year of implementation and 17 miles in the following years. Asimismo, according to the President, will generate more than 100,000 direct and indirect jobs during the next 4 years.
However, for the first week of January the mandate has received 2,789 certificates of definitive titles and two parcels, living quarters and apartments in 23 provinces of the country.
Economy and tourism
Abinader has conjugated the empire of all the sectors of the population to salar adelante in the economic. Continued with the aid programs that implemented the previous mandate of Danilo Medina: The Solidarity Assistance Fund for Employment (Phase 1) and “Quédate en casa” have been extended until April this year at a cost of RD $ 21,000 million.
The economic sectors that have recovered most in these days are the industrial, agricultural, franc, construction and mining zones. The principal reto han sido los bars, restaurants y el turismo.
For the tourism sector he has initiated various inversions and created including a plan for impulse to the local level, in which many hotels have five stars on offer, as well as the offer of prestige is of interest for family holidays.
Education
“In order to start school, all the children and girls of the schools and schools of the Dominican Republic have access to a tablet or laptop”, Abinader announced at the National Assembly on 16 August.
He initiates the second period of the school year and the promise is not completed in full; If the National Plan of Education is implemented, it includes students who do not have access to the Internet or digital devices that receive classes on national television and radio.
As far as desayuno is concerned, food kits are distributed as products are not distributed among the families of the students.
Benefits to the Police
One of the most recent projects is the salary increase for members of the National Police (PN). It adjusts to an increment between 10 and 40 per cent, initiating this month of January.
In addition, in the December finals, Abinader announced the inclusion of more than 39 mil members of the PN in the Premium service of the National Service of Health (Senasa), without additional payment and with a medicine cover of 19 mil monthly pesos.
Asimismo, the Gobierno establishment that the passage will be free on the buses of the OMSA, the Metro of Santo Domingo and the Teleférico.
The military also benefited from the salary increase, although it did not disclose the amount of the increase. Without embarrassment, the State Officer disposes of more than 49 million pounds in order for the Ministry of Defense to pay back retroactive attacks from 2015 on military retreats and raids on the Forced Army.
Lucha against COVID19
When its mandate is lifted, Abinader announces the increase in the RU $ 66,000 million increase during its first four months of government to address the sanitary crisis produced by the pandemic.
The country finds itself in the 10 million dose of vaccine, the levels are expected to rise in February. Although the Gabinete de Salud has announced that the governor has agreed with the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech that 7.9 million doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine will be available, against the Covid-19 for the second quarter of 2021.
The country has seen 17 deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020. The last ones have been disputed by Luis Abinader, since the last one has been more restricted to banning the circulation of people from the media.
Other provisions include the increase in the future of a 30% salary based on medicines and incentives, the promotion of 2 million Dominicans in the National Health Service (Senasa) and the inversion of millionaire figures to build and terminate hospitals in the country.
Relations with Haiti
From its beginnings, the current governor has demonstrated his interest in promoting diplomatic relations with Haiti through the president’s visits to frontier limits, as well as meetings held with former diplomats.
Recently, an agreement was reached between both nations that will work to end the registration in the Haitian civil registry with citizens of these countries that are in Dominican territory. In addition, Haiti’s construction of hospitals and the opening of maritime delimitation between the two countries.