Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez, bowing to an overwhelming nationwide support for a better education, agreed to meet with the members of the Dignified Education Coalition today.

Fernandez and a Coalition commission are currently in a meeting which began at 12:40 p.m., to deal with its demand of 4 percent the country’s GDP for the education sector.

Although the meeting was set to start at 11 a.m., the invitees had to wait until after 12:30 when Fernandez concluded another meeting with officials of the economic area, when Education Minister Melanio Paredes and the Presidency’s Chief of Staff Cesar Pina, accompanied him to the gathering.

The ministers of the Treasury Vicente Bengoa, of the Economy Temístocles Montas, other senior Economic Cabinet officers and several lawmakers also participate in the meeting.

Previous to the meeting, Coalition spokesman and priest Mario Serrano said they want the President to instruct the officials to comply with the legislation which he himself signed into Law 13 years ago.