| Opposition candidate blames president for FTZ losses |
| Domican-Today |
| 12/9/2007 |
Source: The Dominican Today
Santiago de los Caballeros.- Presidential candidate for the main opposition PRD party, Miguel Vargas Maldonado, stated that "the loss of over 70,000 direct jobs in the Free Trade Zones is the result of inertia and lack of sensitivity on the part of president Leonel Fern?ez, who has said that he does not believe in that business model".
Vargas, who was on a campaigning trip to the country's second-largest city, said that Fern?ez "did nothing to prevent the FTZ companies from being hit by internal and external factors".
He went on to say that when he becomes president he plans to launch "a strategy geared at strengthening the most competitive elements and providing the support needed for these industrial parks to diversify and become export platforms for goods and services in which we can be successful". |
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