NEW YORK. Dr. Yomare Polanco, the candidate for overseas deputy from the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), emerged victorious in a recent debate by the Diaspora RD Observatory held this week in New York City.
The Diaspora RD Observatory, a collective of political analysts and electoral process observers abroad, officially pronounced Dr. Yomare Polanco, the PRD overseas deputy candidate, as the debate winner for constituency #1 in the United States. The Dominican Committee Abroad organized the event this week, which took place at the Dominican Sports and Cultural Center on Amsterdam Avenue in Upper Manhattan.
After carefully considering the candidates’ presentations, the observers reached a nearly unanimous agreement that Polanco had outperformed the other participants in the debate.
In addition to Polanco, Francisco Fernández of the PLD, Andrés Meléndez Valoy of the PRSC, and Cirilo Moronta of the PRM also participated in the debate.
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The observatory highlighted that among Polanco’s most significant proposals, resonating well with the diaspora is the creation of a pension fund utilizing funds from remittances sent to the Dominican Republic. This fund would be based on the cumulative remittances sent to the Caribbean over the years. Other proposals include reducing the time it takes for Dominicans to ship vehicles to their home country and significantly decreasing airfare prices, which have been inflated due to high government taxes and airline abuses.
Polanco also advocates for facilitating the entry of agricultural products from the Dominican Republic into the United States through the FDA. He suggests making current requirements more flexible to allow fair competition with other countries.
“All of us send a considerable amount of money there. In each person’s working life, between 100,000 and 200,000 dollars in remittances are sent. There is hidden money when it is sent; if we send 50 dollars in change, the remitters put it at whatever they want; it is not 53, it is 58,” explained Polanco.
