Puig talks about employment, environment and economy in dialogues at INTEC
Santo Domingo. Max Puig, candidate for the presidency of the Dominican Republic for the Alliance for Democracy Party (APD), was the second candidate to share with the academic community in the “INTEC Dialogues with presidential candidates 2012” organized by the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC).
This second meeting of the series of three days with the representatives of the majority political parties of the country, took place on Monday 13 in February and brought together managers, students, teachers and guests in the Julio Ravelo Room of the university and the Osvaldo Auditorium García de la Concha, where the event was transmitted simultaneously.
The participants had the opportunity to present the candidate with their concerns about their government proposal, in case of being the winner in the next presidential elections of the country, the 20 of May of this year.
Puig said that his government will aspire to a society where all Dominicans have enough income to lead a decent life. He also stressed that to improve the quality of the educational system, it will focus on teacher training and coverage of initial education: "Improving teaching from its starting point will allow us to build a Dominican Republic of equality and opportunities," he stressed.
Likewise, the candidate for the Alliance for Democracy (APD) party indicated that within their government plans, a link between universities and companies is included, to improve the capacity of higher education centers, in regarding knowledge production. He also raised the need to improve spending and create a series of funds and taxes to promote higher education and employment with equity, mainly for young women.
For his part, the rector of INTEC, Rolando M. Guzmán, stressed that society needs to enrich the political debate on national issues. "It is for this reason that we wanted to bring to a first direct meeting with the university community political leaders to share their vision, with a dynamic based on questions, mainly."
The meetings with the academic community began last Wednesday, February 8 with the participation of Hipólito Mejía, from the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), and will conclude on Wednesday 15, with Danilo Medina, candidate of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).
The three candidates represent the parties that obtained the most votes in the last presidential elections of 2008, and that to date had held their primaries.
Each of the dialogues has live broadcast through www.livestream.com/intec.
Profile of Max Puig
Sociologist, professor and politician, native of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Graduated from the Faculties of Law and Economic Sciences; and of Letters and Sciences, of the University of Paris, where he obtained both Degrees and his doctorate in Public Law and Political Science from the University of Paris.
Holder of the Chair of Sociology of Underdevelopment, and of the Masters of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences at the UASD, he was senator for Puerto Plata during the 1990-1994 period.
From 1996 to 2000, he served as: Secretary of State National Authorizing Officer for European Development Funds for the Dominican Republic; Member of the Dominican-Haitian Bilateral Mixed Commission; Member of the Presidential Commission for the Reform and Modernization of the State, as well as, of the Commercial Negotiations Commission of the Dominican Republic.
Puig has stood out as an exhibitor of numerous conferences, summits and national and international seminars, in which he has addressed various aspects of the international relations of the Dominican Republic as well as democratic governance.
Columnist of the newspaper "El Caribe" and the magazine "Ahora", he has written numerous research papers on the Haitian situation and other social and political issues.
Among the distinctions he has received is his election as a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic and the decoration of the Legion of Honor in the rank of Commander, which was awarded by the government of France.
From 2004 to 2008 he held the post of Secretary of State for the Environment with tangible achievements in preserving the natural resources of our society. He was part of the PLD with Professor Juan Bosch and was part of the Political Committee of that party for six years.
He is currently president of the APD Alliance for Democracy, a party he founded in 1992, recognized by Dominican laws in 2002. Currently, it is the fourth largest political force in the nation. In August 2008 he was appointed Minister of Labor and President of the National Social Security Council, from where he carried out work that was recognized by institutions such as the International Labor Organization (ILO).
On July 30, Puig resigned from the Minister of Labor to join the current electoral campaign as a candidate for the presidency of the Dominican Republic for the Alliance for Democracy and a group of social and political forces of his nation.