Faced with various complaints from citizens about the high prices of the base basket products, the President of Fuerza del Pueblo, Leonel Fernández, called on the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, to recall the phrase used by the late PRD leader José Francisco Peña Gómez from “First the People.”
“An appeal to President Luis Abinader, to remind José Francisco Peña Gómez’s saying ‘the people first’, in these moments of crisis, ‘the people first’ and that is why we remind him of one of our governments, Food is first” , expressed Fernández.
The former president of the republic also asked the current head of state to maintain support and social programs in the face of the uncertainty and economic downturn caused by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
These were parts of Fernández’s words in his speech at the closing plenary session of Fuerza del Pueblo’s first internal congress called “Congress of the People Professor Juan Bosch”.