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SUBJECT: DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #36: THE PLD PLATFORM, IN 
BRIEF 
 
 
1. (SBU)  Following is no. 36 in our series on the Dominican 
elections. 
 
Dominican Elections #36: The PLD Platform, in Brief 
 
Leonel Fernandez's Partido de Liberacion Dominicana is the 
only one of three parties to have produced a formal election 
platform.  The full text in Spanish is available either on 
the PLD website 
(http://www.pld.org.do/02-documentos/programa 2004.pdf) or on 
our SIPRNET site 
(http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/santodomingo/ ).  Following 
is our precis in English of the 150-page document. A precis 
of the precis:  the PLD takes a socially conscious 
market-friendly approach to government, trusting in rational 
analysis and moral values.  And though the cover is in 
vibrant PLD gold-and-purple, the major chapters are headed by 
warm pencil-drawn graphics. 
 
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                              THE PLD PLATFORM 
 
PLD PROGRAM 
 
Presentation by Leonel Fernandez 
My administration sought to reduce unemployment and poverty 
while improving institutions, respect for civil rights and a 
nation of laws.  We persevered despite the systematic and 
irrational efforts of the opposition and the 
opposition-dominated Congress.  History since 2000 shows that 
our orientation was correct.  Logic and analysis demonstrate 
this; we should thank God that the past four years of PRD 
permit us to make the comparison. 
 
The PLD has grown and matured in the interval; unlike other 
parties, it has carried out its internal processes in model 
fashion, with no crisis.  Members of the party showed 
themselves capable in the first PLD administration; and we 
have obtained a level of organization and coherency that sets 
us apart from others.  We offer, humbly, our experience and 
our desire to serve. 
 
The PLD when elected will reinitiate the process of 
institutionalization and modernization.  In the midst of 
crisis we will represent the people with dignity and decorum, 
confident that they and the country still have moral fiber 
and the ability to renew themselves. 
 
Hundreds of individuals have collaborated on this party 
platform, conscious of their responsibilities.  Taken 
together, it is a work strategy and the formal presentation 
of an engagement for which we seek the support of all 
Dominicans concerned in the future of their children and of 
the country. 
 
General Lines 
 
The Dominican Republic is currently in the most difficult 
moment of its history.  Since 2000 the PRD has initiated a 
process of progressive deterioration causing crisis, 
uncertainty, despair and discouragement.  The PRD government 
was inept in handling public expenditure, prejudicing 
savings, and showed ineffective management and 
administration.  Comparative statistics bear this out. 
 
Public finances are under pressure because of high levels of 
public debt taken on by the PRD; the impact of the 
quasi-fiscal (Central Bank) debt on fiscal goals; and 
excessive public employment, which will absorb more than 30 
percent of revenue in 2004.  The PLD says that public debt is 
57 percent of GDP.  Despite tax increases, the PRD government 
has not restrained expenditures and so has not increased 
savings.  The PRD opted for a policy of increasing public 
debt.  The planned fiscal reform must include both tax 
changes and expenditure reductions. 
 
The financial &hole8 was created by rumors, a banking 
liquidity crisis, &profound and serious irregularities in 
Baninter,8 other banks with administrative and accounting 
problems, disrespect for banking norms, excessive advances 
and rediscounts by the Central Bank beyond the legal limits. 
Central Bank debt has grown to unsustainable levels.  Banking 
supervision is insufficient and non-transparent, creating 
vulnerability to bank fraud. 
 
Exchange rate policy has been erratic and often misguided. 
The peso has lost much of its value, reflecting a crisis of 
confidence and excessive monetary issue. 
 
The cost of living rose 88 percent over 3  years of PRD 
administration. 
 
Management of the electricity sector was irresponsible, 
complicated by devaluation and plagued by payment delays  and 
a $450 debt to generators at the end of 2003.  The 
government,s contradictory role as regulator and actor in 
the market for generation, transmission and distribution has 
caused distortions. 
 
These factors have raised the poverty level and reduced the 
level of human development.  Public services have 
deteriorated, particularly in education, due to the PRD,s 
clientism and waste of state resources, including through 
corruption.  Institutions have been greatly weakened. 
 
IMF negotiations are outlined, as well as macroeconomic 
externalities.  The post-September 11 global emphasis on 
security reduced the role of  the international community in 
seeking solutions and protecting international norms such as 
sovereign equality and non-intervention.  Multilateralism is 
still active, however.  Third world groupings such as the 
&Group of 218 led by Brazil, India, South Africa and China, 
constitute an emerging new axis of political and economic 
power.  The &Washington consensus8 of the 1990,s on 
orthodox economic management was insufficient in itself to 
create sufficient growth.  The PLD and others are meditating 
on the need for more inclusive global policies, with a human 
face and development-oriented.  The fight against world 
poverty isa priority. 
 
Challenges 
 
Four principal ones exist: 
1.    Recovering macroeconomic stability and resumption of 
growth; 
2.    Consolidate democratic governability by strengthening 
basic institutions 
3.    Improving competitiveness nationallhy and 
internationally; and 
4.    Achieving a better level of social equity for Dominican 
society. 
Aims include: 
- - Renegotiating internal and external debt through dialogue 
so as to make government finances viable. 
- - Strengthening institutions 
- - Modernizing productive sectors, industrial and 
agricultural 
- - Achieving financial sustainability of the electricity 
sector 
- - Creation of jobs through growth, aided by correct 
policies. 
- - Consolidation of business conditions favorable to 
entrepreneurship. 
- - Carrying out social policies to protect individuals and 
provide opportunity for all ) employment creation, 
strengthening production, bettering education and training 
- - Restructuring government expenditure toward social 
programs, with changes to make them more effective. 
- - Improving education, including through public-private 
partnerships and stressing excellence. 
- - Following social policy with a long-term vision that 
rises above the current administration and allows a gradual 
weaning from clientism and electoral populism. 
- - Achieving transparent government, limiting discretion in 
interpreting laws and regulations, and acting honestly 
 
Vision of a Development Model 
 
The PLD advocates a social model of the marketplace, with 
greater solidarity for the least developed Dominicans and a 
defined, clear and focused fight against poverty. 
 
"A democratic and social state of laws will not be an 
opponent of the market, but will move alongside the market, 
joining the private sector and civil society in promoting the 
changes needed to confront the challenges of the present and 
future . . . which requires modern management with qualified 
personnel and agile, transparent administrative procedures to 
prevent corruption, inefficiency and theft." 
 
Politics of the State and Institutions 
 
Reform and modernization of the state and society is the 
general goal.  The fragile democracy developed since the 
death of Trujillo in 1961 tends to be more authoritarian than 
participatory, based charismatic leadership, social 
inequality, and weak values.  Further democratization, a 
central role for civil society, greater institutionalization 
and respect for citizens, rights, and more citizen 
participation are in order.   The state must plan a strategy 
leading toward a society that is dignified, equitable, and 
democratic. 
 
Political Reform 
 
Needed strengthening of democratic institutions and 
participation will depend on creating a new 
legal-institutional framework and encouraging a new mode of 
citizen behavior. 
 
Political Parties 
 
- - Improve citizen representation and participation 
- - Encourage internal democratization and better 
qualification of personnel 
- - Encourage more responsible behavior by leaders to propose 
solutions to the country,s problems 
Electoral System 
 
 - - Strengthen the electoral system to eliminate partisan 
bias and ensure elections that follow the rules and 
democratic procedures 
- - Select the judges and staff of the Central Electoral 
Tribunal (JCE) with the active participation of political 
parties and civil society 
 
Constitutional Reform 
 
- - Through a Constituent Assembly, thoroughly revise the 
constitution to be modern, developmentalist, democratic, and 
participatory, reaffirming the rule of law 
- - Include institutional, economic, social, and political 
changes demanded by society 
 
Reform of Public Administration 
 
- - Change from a bureaucratic model to a management model of 
providing public services to citizens 
- - Reorganize public administration to eliminate duplication 
and waste 
- - Train and professionalize public employees 
- - Instill transparency and ethics according to 
international norms 
- - Strengthen development planning to ensure efficiency and 
citizen input 
- - Develop an improvement program for public services to 
guarantee their quality, low cost, and continuity 
 
Reform of the Presidency of the Republic 
 
- - Redefine the functions of the Presidency to eliminate 
excessively centralized power and adopt a more modern 
collective decision model for the government 
- - Create technical support capability for programming and 
management functions 
- - Encourage creation of permanent coordination mechanisms 
with other government agencies, the business sector, and 
civil society organizations 
 
Reform of  the Legislative Branch 
 
- - Institutionally strengthen the Congress to serve as an 
effective counterweight to the over-powerful executive 
- - Stimulate legislators, accountability to society and 
transparency in their actions 
- - Promote more effective dialogue, representation, and 
oversight by the National Congress 
 
Reform of the Judicial Branch 
 
- - Deepen the reforms since 1996, to make the judicial 
system democratic and efficient and judges, prosecutors, and 
other officials more independent and conscious of their role 
in society, and to provide full access to all citizens 
 
Municipal Reform 
 
- - Promote gradual territorial and administrative 
decentralization, with political, economic, and social 
effects on local communities 
- - Promote political, financial, fiscal, and administrative 
autonomy for local governments, in line with the needs of 
local development 
- -Consolidate decentralized public institutions establishing 
new relations between citizens, social groups, and their 
local territories 
 
Reform of the Private Sector 
 
- - Promote cooperative and complementary relations between 
Government and Marketplace 
- - Stimulate social and environmental responsibility on the 
part of businesses 
- - Encourage competitive practices that allow equal 
opportunities for all 
- - Facilitate via the government access for the private 
sector to technology, modern administrative practices, and 
information sources useful for development 
 
Reform of Civil Society 
 
- -Promote the habit of responsible participation by civil 
society organizations to deepen democratization of the State 
and society 
- - Establish regulations that permit development of civil 
society activities 
 
Management of Government Reform 
 
- - Prepare an "integral reform plan" during the transition 
period with detailed proposals for the four-year term 
- - Establish priorities through dialogue, emphasizing 
demands for betterpublic services, more transparency, and 
more citizen participation in public affiars 
- -Establish a single agency to coordinate reform and 
appropriate communications mechanisms and strategies to 
improve effectiveness of reforms 
- - Submit to Congress a package of necessary legal reforms 
- - Make the budget process, in particular for 2005, an 
instrument of reform, adopting mechanisms such as management 
contracts and assessment of results 
- -Organize dialogue with international institutions to raise 
the effectiveness of external assistance to the Dominican 
Republic to promote reforms 
 
 
International Relations 
 
The platform aims in general terms to return to an active, 
efficient and systematic approach to foreign policy.  It 
criticizes the current government for a "significant 
deterioration" in foreign policy.  The over-reaching goals 
include defense of territorial integrity and identity; 
defense and consolidation of "national sovereignty" in the 
face of globalization; and reintegration into the 
international scene with the objective of strengthening 
democratic governance and economic and social development of 
the country.  Objectives and strategies are provided, in 
order, for foreign relations with: 1) Haiti, 2) the United 
States, 3) Latin America and the Caribbean, 4) Europe, 5) 
Spain, and 6) the rest of the world. 
 
Specific Aims: 
 
Haiti: 
     To work towards permanent and strong diplomatic 
relations with Haiti characterized by mutual responsibility, 
respect, and efficiency; 
     To continue the policy of encouraging the international 
community to support and stand with Haiti; 
 
United States: 
     To sustain a policy of mutual respect and continuing 
collaboration in the areas of economics, politics, 
environment, culture, among various other themes. 
     To continue negotiating a U.S.-Dominican bilateral free 
trade agreement. 
     To comply with and strengthen various bilateral 
treaties and accords in order to improve security in the 
hemisphere and encourage cultural, scientific, technological 
and sports exchanges. 
 
Latin America and the Caribbean: 
     To improve political, economic, commercial and cultural 
relations, especially in the Caribbean and Central America. 
     To foster the development of the possibility of a 
commercial accord between the Dominican Republic and CARICOM, 
strengthening the ties of the states in the region through 
commercial and cultural exchanges. 
 
Europe 
     To increase relations with the European Union, 
especially in the areas of international policy, tourism, 
investment, commerce, technical cooperation, training and 
cultural exchanges. 
 
Spain 
     To strengthen bilateral ties in the areas of commerce, 
cooperation and technological and academic exchanges. 
 
Over-reaching goals 
 
     To return to an active, efficient and systematic 
foreign policy. 
     To defend and consolidate the National Sovereignty in 
the face of a globalized new world order. 
     Defend territorial integrity and identity and respect 
international treaties, accords and conventions. 
     To reinsert the DR on the international scene. 
 
Economic Policies 
 
The PLD introduces its economic platform by blaming the PRD 
for losing the economic stability and sustained growth 
achieved during the Fernandez government -- under the PRD 
unemployment has risen, government spending has accelerated 
with an unchecked policy of internal and external borrowing, 
and the PRD mismanaged the banking crisis, all of which led 
to "negative performance during these last years."  The 
platform lists broad, ambitious objectives and delineates 
strategies.  Strategies generally are broad objectives, most 
of them without specifics.  Topics are macroeconomic policy, 
the industrial sector, tourism, agriculture, and sugar. 
 
Macroeconomics 
 
The macroeconomic policy calls for fiscal austerity, tax 
reform, sustainable debt, strict monetary policy, and a 
market-based exchange rate --but makes only veiled reference 
to the IMF standby agreement. 
 
Trade 
On trade, the PLD calls for increased competitiveness and 
continuation of the competitiveness program initiated under 
Mejia.  Similarly, on tariffs, the platform sets an objective 
of establishing a regimen of tariffs &adjusted to the 
situation of openness.8 The PLD proposes to reintegrate the 
country into CARICOM,s &regional negotiating machinery8 
while renewing strategic alliances and guarding the interests 
of small economies in all trade negotiating forums. 
 
Other Aims of the Economic Platform: 
 
     Implement policies that encourage the return of capital 
and investment; 
     Apply monetary and fiscal policies conducive to stable 
internal prices, a stable exchange rate and stable interest 
rates; 
     Increase tax collections; 
     Establish a system of efficiency indicators for social 
spending -- especially in health and education; 
     Limit the growth of debt stock to the level of GDP 
growth; 
     Authorize issuance of new sovereign bonds so as to roll 
over current bond issues; 
     Strengthen the office of the Technical Secretary to 
manage international resources; 
     Improve the efficiency of the National Office of 
Industrial Property (ONAPI) in issuance of"trademarks, 
commercial names, and inventions"; 
     Diversify free trade zones and initiate links with the 
domestic productive sector to increase competitiveness of 
domestic industries; 
     Improve quality, infrastructure, and environmental 
safeguards to become a leader in the tourism sector; 
     For agriculture, establish information exchange 
mechanism on prices and production; assure domestic 
production of food staples, improve technology, and remove 
barriers that create distortions (except for those that 
protect certain products under commercial agreements); and 
     revamp outdated sugar laws and exclude sugar from all 
trade negotiations for sufficient time to rehabilitate the 
sector 
 
Environment 
 
The PLD environment platform notes that the country has 
largely moved from a rural society to an urban one, so 
previous economic development models don,t meet the needs of 
a continually growing population.  The PLD asserts its modern 
vision for administering the State is based on the 
government,s ethical contract with the people and a social 
obligation to identify a development model that meets the 
country,s capacity and potential as a society.  PLD 
proposals cover deforestation, destruction of coastal marine 
ecosystems, loss of biodiversity, the contamination of water 
resources and general environmental degradation.   The PLD 
criticizes the current administration for failing to 
implement or abide by (environmental) Law 64-00, passed 
during the Fernandez Administration.  The PLD will seek the 
rational use of resources and the development and 
strengthening of the national system of protected areas.  The 
PLD says it will also reduce environmental pollution and 
establish an institutional framework of participative 
management. 
 
Other Aims: 
     Urge decentralization of environmental measures, toward 
local municipalities through establishment and development of 
a National System of Environmental Management and of natural 
resources; 
     Reform the Constitution to require sustainable 
management of natural resources and the environment; 
     Promote establishment of a right to enjoy a healthy 
natural environment; 
     Take the necessary measures to organize the Secretariat 
of the Environment and Natural resources in a manner that 
complies with Law 64-00 -- and adhere to other provisions in 
the law; 
     Abide by international conventions and other 
commitments undertaken by the state and urge passage of 
legislation where necessary; 
     Engage civil society in environmental management; 
     Promote the reduction and recycling of solid wastes; 
     Adopt clean productive technologies; 
     Establish a framework to monitor the environment in 
selected areas of the largest population centers by 2006; 
     Develop alternatives to reduce the use of 
agrochemicals; and 
     Implement soil and water management technologies; 
 
Energy 
 
The PLD,s energy platform consists of three sub-sectors: 
electricity, fuel and alternative energy. 
 
The PLD introduces its energy platform by asserting that 
during its tenure, it confronted the grave problems of the 
electrical sub-sector by working simultaneously in two areas: 
meeting inherited short-term problems by adding 1000 
megawatts of new and rehabilitated generating capacity; and 
seeking private sector participation in the generation and 
distribution of electricity.  The PLD says the PRD 
politicized the privatization ("capitalization") process; 
instead of making necessary adjustments, the Mejia 
administration undertook "counter-reform," by signing the 
Madrid Accords (under which the GODR guaranteed negotiated 
tariff rates to the generators), and through the re-purchase 
of  shares in national electricity distribution companies 
held by Spanish company Union Fenosa.  The PLD alleges that 
bad PRD energy policy and currency depreciation (due to PRD 
policies) have brought the sector to the point of collapse. 
The PLD lists re-privatization of the distribution companies 
as an objective. 
 
Infrastructure 
 
The infrastructure platform addresses public works, transit 
and transportation and telecommunications. 
 
In the area of public works, the PLD promises to eliminate 
political irregularities, define priorities and elicit 
private sector participation.  In transportation the PLD 
assures the rights of citizens to have access to a system of 
transport that is efficient, safe, and reliable.  For 
telecommunications, the PLD asserts that the current 
regulatory body is inadequate and unrepresentative -- it 
lacks balance and the multi-disciplinary knowledge required 
to regulate a sector in need of innovation and  legal, 
financial, technical decisions. 
 
Aims: 
     Strengthen the role of the electricity regulator; 
     Strive to repay the debt in the sector; 
     Conclude the process of converting the independent 
power producers to merchant plants that sell on the spot 
market; 
     Establish a cost-based tariff; 
     Guarantee just treatment of users of electrical 
services; 
     Create a Fuels Superintendency; 
     Encourage the use of alternative energy resources; 
     Define a policy for priorities in infrastructure 
development based on development plans; 
     Resolve the institutional disorder created by the 
dispersion of many institutions with similar functions and 
the same level of hierarchy; and 
     Redesign the telecom regulatory body so that its 
composition reflects the many disciplines required to take 
decisions in a sector of this nature. 
 
 
 
 
Social Policies 
 
The PLD says that civil society,s "intervention"in the 
democratic process is a fairly recent phenomenon, 
demonstrating mistrust and questioning of excessive and 
exclusionary behavior by political parties and the state. 
There is no clear differentiation between corporate interest 
organizations (national or international) and the civic 
organizations representing communities and society at large. 
 
Aims: 
 
     Promote responsible civil society participation in 
order to deepen democratization of the state and of society 
in general; 
     Stimulate a regulatory system that allows for the 
development and consolidation of civil society actions; 
     Encourage discussion of a Law on Social Participation 
to assure the widest participation possible of civil society 
organizations; 
     Regulate NGO activities by establishing mechanisms for 
accounting for the origin and use of funds; 
     Promote financial support for NGO social programs as 
part of the fight against poverty; and 
     Support programs that encourage institutional capacity 
of NGOs. 
 
 
Human Rights and Public Security 
 
The centrist and bureaucratic Dominican government provides 
inadequate security because responsibilities are divided and 
uncoordinated.  The government has traditionally relied on 
the police force principally for control and social/political 
discipline.  The history of human rights abuses demonstrates 
the inability of the police as currently managed to protect 
and serve.  State institutions and the people should be 
committed to ensuring quality of life for all and a 
functioning democracy. 
 
Aims: 
 
     Encourage the transformation of the National Police 
into a public security force with moral authority to protect 
society, to develop professionalism and to overcome negative 
perceptions of incompetence and repressive force; 
     Provide protection and public security to reduce 
criminality without putting at risk individual rights, due 
process or rule of law; 
     Support the application of the new Criminal Procedures 
Code and the Public Ministry Career Statute; 
     Promote the application of the new Police Reform Law; 
     Create a National Institute for Security and Criminal 
Policy dedicated to studies and analyses of the Dominican 
public security situation; 
     Establish an information system to keep track of 
offenses committed in various police stations, poor 
neighborhoods and provinces; and 
     Centralize authority and control of prisons into one 
institution by creating a Police Penitentiary Agency. 
 
Social Policies 
 
Poverty and the unequal distribution of wealth are the 
principle threats to social integration..  The indicators of 
societal downturn are evident, including but not limited to 
malnutrition, an increase in endemic diseases, high infant 
and maternal mortality rates and rising illiteracy rates. 
Current social conditions require better government policies. 
 The government,s main instrument the budget; increasing 
social expenditures will improve conditions.   The 
platform,s social policies are broad in scope and cover the 
following themes: population and development, vulnerable 
populations (the disabled, children and adolescents, the 
elderly), women,s issues, Dominicans living abroad, social 
security, education and health. 
 
Aims: 
 
     Assure the efficiency, rationale and focus of public 
spending for social programs; 
     Increase international funding for programs on 
education, health and sanitation; 
     Promote access to a quality education for all 
Dominicans regardless of socio-economic class and geographic 
regions; 
     Guarantee basic social services to children and 
adolescents, especially those in vulnerable situations; 
     Promote women,s employment in nontraditional 
occupations; 
     Reduce domestic violence and improve application of the 
Law Against Domestic Violence; 
     Launch a national campaign targeting women about 
HIV/AIDS and prevention; 
     Establish and strengthen implementation mechanisms for 
the new Law Against Trafficking and Alien Smuggling and other 
laws protecting women; 
     Create the necessary conditions for better access to 
low-cost health care; 
     Develop a pension system that will prevent the loss or 
reduction in wages in retirement. 
 
Defense and National Security 
 
There is no National Security law and the existing Armed 
Forces Law is inadequate.  With no national defense policy it 
is difficult to elaborate doctrine and strategies, the size 
of the armed forces, or the participation in international 
events.  The society has no discussed reform and 
modernization of the forces or influenced them about their 
role in defense and democracy.  Training is inadequate for 
duties and functions.  Military education has little to do 
with national needs.  Benefits are granted on a personal 
rather than an inistitutional basis.  Budgeting is improvised 
and heavily influenced by the personal interest of 
administrators and financial managers.  Supply is deficient. 
The military apply rules of engagement for war when called on 
to deal with street disturbances.  There is no planning but 
rather constant improvisation. 
 
Aims: 
 
     Definie a defense and national security policy, 
establish a legal format and engage all sectors in a national 
defense community. 
     Improve coordination with foreign policy, coordinating 
with international organizations 
     Prepare the military for this new environment, improve 
training, establish education and training oriented to 
support of democracy; improve mobility and efficiency 
     Realize substantial savings in the defense budget, 
adjusting expenditures to instititutional needs ) with 
active coordination between the military and the Congress 
through existing channels 
     Improving living conditions, interest personnel in good 
moral and social conduct including with a Code of Military 
Ethics 
 
Strategies: 
 
     Define a defense policy, draft and submit a Law on 
Security and Defense, study the threats to the nation and the 
Caribbean 
     Strengthen participation in regional defense and 
security mechanisms to increase mutual understanding and 
transparency 
     Create a National Security Council 
     Revise the Basic Law of the Armed Forces along with 
internal regulations for the branches 
     Draft a Code of Ethics and Morals for the military; 
strengthen this with education 
     Establish a classification of military positions and 
their functions and procedures 
     Redistribute and relocate units according to current 
threats 
     Establish a smaller hierarchy with greater operational 
effectivenessx 
     Inventory and review property and real estate belonging 
to the military 
     Establish a program for personal loans, define social 
security policies and health programs 
     Implement disciplinary regulations for corruption and 
means to separate those bringing discredit to the institution 
     Establish a budget more closely aligned to reality 
 
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