The American Multicultural Experience
A little over a month ago, we saw the Dominicans going down to the street that protested in opposition to irregularities the local elections of February 16: they were so deep that they led to their cancellation. And were rescheduled for March 15.
At that time, the administrative minister of the presidency, José Ramón Peralta, went so far as to say that since the existing president, Danilo Medina, completed his term, the most recent social explosion is a challenge for the incoming government, anyway, not for them, not for them, not for them, not for them not for them, not for them, not for them, not for them, .
The minister has a complex history: in June last year, President Danilo Medina declared the country that planned to be provided for a moment in the election, even if the country’s letter prohibits it. Medina has been a state director since 2012, looking for her entire successive term. The reaction of the population was so competitive that the president was forced to give up his goal without having begun any procedure for the amendment of the Magna Carta.
The first positive case of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic registered on March 1, the municipal elections were held on March 15 on March 16, the border closure began and on the 20th of the national curfew imposed until April 18.
In the meantime, the pandemic in the Dominican Republic has grown at an alarming rate. In fact, when comparing the growth curves of the pandemic in the Dominican Republic and Italy, the two are similar, even though Italy has a population six times larger.
If the pandemic in the Dominican Republic did not attract so much attention from foreign media, it is probably because if the infection curve is very steep, the death curve is not. However, this is possibly due, at least in components, to the differences in the way in which the country analyzes and records the reasons for death.
According to the latest report from the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Public Health, as of April 26, they had performed 32,485 tests, of which 6,293 were positive and had recorded 282 deaths and 993 cases of recovery. The report also indicates a reduction in the daily number of new cases, but it is not yet possible to say that the pandemic is being contained.
However, the consequences of pandemic have only been healthy and economic, but also political.
The presidential election to elect Danilo Medina’s successor is scheduled for May 17 of this year. However, taking into account the circumstances, the Senate approved a 2-day extension of the state of emergency declared through Medina, and the Electoral Council of the Dominican Republic postponed the presidential elections until July 5 of this year.
The extension of the elections and the state of emergency implies that a president whose majority of the population did not need to remain in force will remain in the workplace more time than expected, while exercising ordinary forces granted through the statement of the state of emergency .
Throughout the world, the voices have been stimulated in the way in which the cases surrounding the pandemic open the path to the concentration and abuse of force through leaders through the political spectrum. Hopefully the July 5th elections can take a position and that the pandemic can be controlled.
American multicultural experience
2022
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