Speech
Luis Abinader  ·  2026-09-09 13:54

9 de septiembre de 2026

Economic growth and the public policies that have been implemented have completely changed the country. This is already a middle-class country where the number of people who have access, for example, to travel, to better education, to better health, to better recreation, also to vehicles, and as a country's income increases, people demand more. The fact that the indicators are improving does not mean that everything is perfect, but it does provide a basis for us to keep getting better and for the well-being of the population to improve. And each generation is like my dad used to say when he went to school for the first time, it was a car, he studied here, I had the opportunity to go study abroad. Each generation is having many more opportunities, and that's what the government wants to do: complement the private sector, which is the engine of the economy, but with reasonable regulation and public policies that work. And I believe that sometimes we need to do the opposite. When growth is lost, when macroeconomic stability is lost, what happens? It took more than 15 years to return to the poverty level that existed prior to the macroeconomic crisis of 2003-2004. In other words, the loss of well-being for the population was immense. So, I think we need to value what we have; it's not perfect by any means, but the government is working to ensure that all these macroeconomic indicators translate into better well-being for households and the population in general.