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SANTO DOMINGO. - The opposition PRD party’s presidential candidate party challenged president Leonel Fernandez to debate the Marbella scandal and the origin of both their fortunes.
Miguel Vargas Maldonado said he’s unaware of any productive activity by Fernandez to justify his alleged wealth. "Since here it’s been spoken of funds, wealth, we are ready to show the country where our funds and assets have come from."
He said his assets are the result of more than 30 years of work as an engineering professional and private real estate industrialist, a time in which he said he developed multiple, national and international projects worth millions.
He said in a debate with Fernandez he would show that in the last 10 years he’s paid more than RD$300 million in taxes. "I will show that in personal terms we have paid more taxes than Fernandez’s entire cabinet and the political committee of the PLD (ruling party)."
Vargas Maldonado spoke during a breakfast hosted by the director of the newspaper Listin Diario, Miguel Franjul.
"What we can’t explain is how people who’ve never practiced any type of productive activity can exhibit the conditions they exhibit in economic terms," he said, adding that he’s willing to talk about the Marbella scandal, one of Spain’s most astounding cases of government corruption.
"The case of Spain is interesting, because there we must determine who’s linked to the Marbella case, if it’s the present candidate to the reelection or I,” he said, in clear reference to Fernandez.
He said the Dominican State has all the facilities to contact Spain’s judicial authorities to determine if he’s involved in the case. "As for me, I could establish any involvement which they can have with the issue.”
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I personally know people from the Dominican south who have been doing crooked schemes with you for the past 30 some odd years who are also wealthy SOB’s... Give us a break; it’s no secret in DR that you’re no saint....
LF, besides what he has $tolen .. (Which could not conceivably add up to what you and your coon’s stole during the last PRD administration from public works funding) was getting paid to perform speeches in public and private Universities throughout the US and Europe... for which am sure he profited handsomely...
The only people who would hire you to speak are probably the bosses of the organized crime families of New York.. .
It's all a political stunt, so get it through all your heads that NOTHING will be revealed that will belittle the individuals nor their reputations(?) for being the one to be elected Preasidente.
It's all a sham of the first water and is both politically and emotionally motivated to focus public attention on something else than the everyday problems of no electricity, public scandals, purchase of the outdated and antiquated Refinery purchase, etc., etc.
TB
The exclusion of the people is what allows for corruption to continue. We cannot rest or become overwhelm in our struggle to create a better society. We need to learn from oppressed people from around the world who became too frustrated with the status quo and CHANGED their society through protest, by supporting new political movements, by saying "ENOUGH!!!"
I say ENOUGH with corruption, hatred, divisiveness, elitism, exclusion, hunger, poverty, inequality, devastation of the environment, violation of human rights, lack of public services, illiteracy.
I say enough with politics as usual!