Santo Domingo, DR: The former president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández Reyna, specified that all this debate about prices began with chicken when the People’s Force warned: “that we had reached (with chicken) something unacceptable.”.
On that occasion, the president of the FP warned that it was unacceptable that in a chicken-producing country, a pound of poultry meat costs 100 pesos.
In a joking tone, the Dominican political leader pointed out that “when I said that it had reached 100 pesos a pound (referring to chicken), the government corrected me. They told me, it is not true that it is 100 pesos, it is only 99. They were making fun of the Dominican people,” he stressed.
Fernández explained that people had visited supermarkets to look for Index chicken, which President Abinader mentioned in his accountability speech. However, he was surprised to find neither Index chicken nor Indian chicken, seeing only the “Abinader chicken, which is also expensive.”
The former Dominican president and opposition leader insisted on the mistake made by the Abinader government when importing chickens from Brazil.
“With the price of chicken, what he tried was to import chicken, not from India, but from Brazil, without paying customs duties, ruining chicken producers with that measure. It broke them and the price of chicken did not drop significantly,” he said.
In this sense, he pointed out that the government “lacked imagination, lacked creativity, lacked knowledge or lacked sensitivity.”
