Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Foreign Investment Companies Association (Asiex), and Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) presidential candidate Hipólito Mejía held a gathering Thursday to analyze the candidate’s work plan and exchange ideas on long term projects by investors in the country.

Mejía pledged “to guarantee macroeconomic stability” to the representatives of the foreign companies, after being elected in the next polls in 2012, so that foreign and local capital as well find the suitable atmosphere to develop their investment projects. The ex president said he’s aware of the investors’ relevance for the country’s social and economic development.

ASIEX president Marco De la Rosa thanked the candidate for spending time with the investors which presented their plans for growth in the medium and long term and listened to Mejia’s vision on the priorities of his project of nation.  

De la Rosa told Mejía that the sectors with major growth forecasts within the companies within ASIEX are in mining, telecommunications, energy, financial sector, construction and tourism with investments that would surpass 10.0 billion dollars in the next five years.

Barrick Pueblo Viejo Corporation, a member of Asiex’s board of directors hosted the activity, with the attendance of

Sonia Guzman, Carlos Felix-Gimbernard, Ivan Rodriguez, Carolina Mejia, Arturo Martínez Moya, Fernando Duran, Jose Ramon Díaz, Mayor General Díaz Morfa, Faruk Miguel, all members of the candidate’s work team, and the members of the Asiex Board of Directors, Marco De la Rosa, of AES Dominicana, Carlos González, of Cemex, Máximo Vidal, of Citi, Oscar Peña, of Codetel, Manuel Bonilla, of Barrick Pueblo Viejo, Miguel Estepan of ESSO, José Luis Alonso, of the bank BHD, Carl Carlson, Alejandro Peña Prieto, of Squire Sanders, Alfonso Paniagua, of Central Romana, Octavio Ramírez, of Kinox, and Ramón Ortega, of PWC .