SANTO DOMINGO.- The Presidency’s Chief of Staff warned that keeping the topic of president re-election as a national issue aims to create obstacles for Leonel Fernandez’s Administration.

Cesar Pina Toribio made the statement yesterday, in refernce to the efforts by the engineers Freddy Perez and Felix Bautista, dubbed by local media the “constitutional engineers” for the push to get Fernandez reelected despite legal barriers.

“I am not going to fall into that provocation. Let others continue having that concern, it’s not my concern and much less has nothing to do with my tenure in my public functions," Pina said when journalists asked him on the possibility of the chief executive seeking reelection when the new Constitutional Court is established.

“It’s a topic that I won’t refer to any more. Let everybody opine because I stated mine in its opportunity and I don’t have reason to repeat it,” he said.

“They are evidently unfounded speculations and I would say with a bad intention. Perhaps the intention is to impose the National Magistrate Council which is the corresponding court, figures that assure some types of advantages for those political sectors," the official added.