DirectDemocracyS

Global Political System — Real Direct Democracy

COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL PROGRAM

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Critical Analysis of the Current Situation · Concrete and Functional Solutions

Political, Economic, Financial, and Social Program

2026 Edition · Spanish Version

Based on logic, common sense, truth, study, coherence, and mutual respect

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

This program was developed by DirectDemocracyS (DDS)—the first and only global political system based on direct, authentic, continuous, complete, and immediate democracy—specifically adapted to the Dominican reality of 2026. It is not a campaign document. It is a program for real transformation, based on verifiable data, uncompromising critical analysis, concrete solutions, and consequences foreseen with intellectual honesty.

DDS rejects both populism that makes unfulfilled promises and technocracy that governs without listening. Our proposal unites the specialized expertise of expert groups with the sovereign and inalienable power of the Dominican people. The wealth of the Dominican Republic—its natural resources, its production, its human potential—belongs to, and must forever remain in, the hands of the Dominican people.

This document rigorously analyzes the country's structural problems, presents detailed and functional solutions, and explains how the DDS system — with its micro-groups, its secure platform, its artificial intelligences ddsAI and allddsAI — can transform the Dominican Republic into a model of real democracy, social justice, and shared prosperity.

 

SECTION 1 — CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION

The Dominican Republic in 2026 presents a structural paradox: macroeconomic indicators show sustained growth for decades, while the majority of the population experiences precariousness, increasing inequality, deficient public services, and a profound distrust of institutions in their daily lives. This gap between the official narrative and lived reality is the indispensable starting point for any honest analysis.

1.1 POLITICAL SITUATION

The Dominican political system is formally a multi-party representative democratic republic. However, critical analysis reveals that this democracy is, in practice, a low-intensity democracy where citizens exercise their sovereignty only every four years in the act of voting, without real mechanisms for ongoing participation, oversight, or accountability.

1.1.1 Formal democracy without real substance

The Dominican state has historically been captured by political and economic elites who use institutions to perpetuate their power and protect their interests. The major parties—PRM, PLD, and FP—represent alternative management models within the same system of concentrated power, without questioning the structures that perpetuate inequality.

⚠ CRITICAL PROBLEM: 68% of Dominicans do not trust political parties. Only 48% trust the government (OECD 2025). Citizens are reduced to an electoral role every four years with no real power between elections.

The frequently cited 'political stability' does not stem from strong institutions or empowered citizens, but from the subordination of political actors to external interests — mainly American — and from the inertia of a middle class that, although it has grown, has not yet developed a full awareness of its collective political power.

1.1.2 Systemic corruption

The Dominican Republic scored 37 out of 100 on Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index—a slight improvement, but still in the zone of significant corruption. The 2025 SENASA (National Health Insurance) scandal illustrates how corruption permeates even institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable: public funds intended for the health of millions of low-income citizens, senior citizens, and workers were misappropriated.

⚠ CRITICAL PROBLEM: Every peso stolen through corruption is a denied right. Corruption is not just a crime: it is structural violence against the Dominican people.

Justice moves slowly when those involved have political or economic power, but it is ruthless with the weakest — an asymmetry that destroys institutional trust and fuels the perception of impunity.

1.1.3 Structural dependence on the U.S.

Dominican foreign policy is heavily influenced by Washington. This dependence limits the state's true sovereignty, conditions economic decisions, and creates vulnerabilities to changes in US trade, immigration, or financial policy. Trump's tariffs and the 2025 trade pressures have demonstrated just how exposed the Dominican economy is to external decisions beyond the control of the Dominican people.

1.1.4 Haitian governance crisis on the border

The collapse of the Haitian state represents the greatest geopolitical challenge for the Dominican Republic. Massive migratory pressure, gang violence, and chronic instability in the west directly affect Dominican security, the economy, and social services. Neither the current government nor the opposition has proposed structural solutions to this complex challenge.

1.2 ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL SITUATION

The Dominican economy is the largest in Central America and the Caribbean, with GDP growing at an average rate of 5% for decades. However, by 2025, growth had fallen to just 2.1-2.5%, well below its historical potential, and the country faces multiple accumulated structural pressures.

INDICATOR	VALUE / STATE (2025-2026)
GDP — growth 2025	2.1% — 2.5% (vs. historical average 5%)
GDP — 2026 projection	3.6% — 4.5% (IMF/WB)
Public debt	~60% of GDP (risk zone)
Debt service	24% of annual tax revenues
Interest payment 2026	RD$324 billion (3.7% of GDP)
Domestic interest rates	13% — 14% (excessively high)
Inflation 2025-2026	4.0% — 4.84% (pressure on families)
Peso depreciation 2025	~5.5% against the dollar
General poverty 2025	17.3% (improvement from 19.0% in 2024)
Extreme poverty 2025	2.2% (improvement from 2.4% in 2024)
Informal employment	54% of the employed population
Homes without title deed	68% — limits credit and access to banking services

1.2.1 The exclusionary growth model

Dominican economic growth has disproportionately benefited the elites. Fifty-four percent of workers operate in the informal sector, without social security, job security, or access to credit. The cost of a basic food basket ranges from RD$48,000 to RD$50,000 per month, while the minimum wage in the public sector is RD$10,000—a scandalous gap that the State maintains as an implicit policy of impoverishment.

⚠ CRITICAL PROBLEM: The public sector minimum wage is RD$10,000. The basic food basket costs RD$50,000. The State pays its employees less than one-fifth of what is needed to live with dignity.

1.2.2 The public debt trap

With public debt nearing 60% of GDP and debt service consuming 24% of all tax revenue, the Dominican state finds itself in a structural trap: it must borrow to pay off previous debt, issue bonds that compete with productive credit, and allocate resources to financial obligations rather than to health, education, or infrastructure. Eighty-seven percent of public spending covers current obligations, leaving a mere 13% for productive investment.

⚠ CRITICAL PROBLEM: Every Dominican is born with a debt of approximately RD$300,000 inherited due to irresponsible public management. The State finances its current spending by borrowing from future generations.

1.2.3 The electricity sector: a permanent scandal

The Dominican Republic's structural losses in the electricity sector—both technical and non-technical—amount to approximately US$1.8 billion annually. This hidden subsidy for energy theft, inefficiency, and corruption is a constant drain on public finances. The return of blackouts in 2025 demonstrated that decades of "investment" in the electricity sector have yielded dismal results because the problem is not merely technical: it is political and rooted in systemic corruption.

⚠ CRITICAL PROBLEM: US$1.8 billion is lost annually in the electricity sector. Over 20 years, that equates to US$36 billion — enough to completely transform the country's health, education, and infrastructure systems.

1.2.4 Concentration of wealth and regressive tax system

The Dominican tax system penalizes consumers and protects big business. The poorest 50% of the population spends nearly 45% of their income on consumption taxes, while the wealthy and business conglomerates enjoy preferential treatment. Finance, telecommunications, and energy account for 65% of the wealth of major business owners. The boundary between the economic and political elites is becoming increasingly blurred: economic power is morphing into political power, and vice versa.

1.2.5 Dependence on tourism and external vulnerability

Tourism is the Dominican Republic's main economic engine, with over 10 million visitors in 2023 and a target of 12.5 million by 2026. This dependence is a strategic vulnerability: a perception of insecurity, a pandemic, a natural disaster, or a US political decision could devastate the sector in a matter of weeks. The country needs to diversify its economy without abandoning tourism.

1.3 SOCIAL SITUATION

1.3.1 Structural Inequality

Although overall poverty fell from 19% to 17.3% between 2024 and 2025, inequality persists structurally. Child poverty reaches 30.1%—almost double the national average—and households headed by women have a poverty rate 3.8 percentage points higher than the average. The feminization of poverty index increased from 21.2 to 26.0 between 2024 and 2025—an alarming setback.

⚠ CRITICAL PROBLEM: Three out of every ten Dominican children live in poverty. Childhood is the sector most affected by inequality, with consequences that persist over time.

1.3.2 Educational crisis

Despite investing 4% of GDP in education—a historically high figure for the country—the quality of learning remains poor. PISA results show severe deficiencies in reading, mathematics, and science. There is a shortage of classrooms, deteriorating school infrastructure, insufficient teacher training, and a disconnect between the education provided and the needs of the 21st-century labor market.

1.3.3 Public health: resources and corruption

The Dominican healthcare system combines low structural investment with institutional corruption. The SENASA 2025 scandal was emblematic: funds intended for healthcare coverage for the poorest were diverted for political purposes. The deportation of pregnant Haitian women from Dominican hospitals in 2025 revealed how migratory pressure is managed through human rights violations instead of structural solutions.

1.3.4 Citizen insecurity

Insecurity is one of the top three concerns of Dominicans, along with corruption and economic problems (OECD 2025). Dominican roads claim more than 2,500 lives annually, with a social cost exceeding RD$180 billion. Transnational organized crime exploits institutional weaknesses to expand. The state's response has been predominantly reactive and militarized, failing to address the root causes.

1.3.5 Housing crisis and disorderly urbanization

Sixty-eight percent of Dominican homes lack a property title—a monumental barrier to accessing credit, banking services, and building family wealth. Rents rose by 6% in 2025 while real wages stagnated. Increasing dollarization (dollar deposits rose from 25% to 31% of the total in one year) reflects a lack of confidence in the peso and a search for safe havens in the face of instability.

 

SECTION 2 — THE DIRECTDEMOCRACYS SYSTEM: FOUNDATIONS FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

DirectDemocracyS is not a political party. It is a complete political system, an alternative to the traditional representative model, that returns real decision-making power to the people in a direct, continuous, informed, secure, and protected manner. In the Dominican Republic, where democracy is formal but not substantive, DDS offers the transition to a genuine democracy.

2.1 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF DDS APPLIED TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

DDS is based on principles that directly address the shortcomings of the current Dominican system:

• Non-transferable collective ownership: Natural resources, public companies and strategic infrastructure belong to the Dominican people and cannot be privatized or handed over to national or foreign private interests.
• Shared leadership: No one person concentrates power. Every decision is the result of informed collective deliberation, supervised by specialists and ratified by the people.
• Continuous direct democracy: Dominican citizens don't just vote every four years. They participate, deliberate, decide, and monitor on an ongoing basis through DDS platforms and micro-groups.
• Total transparency: Every government action, every budget allocation, every public contract is accessible to all citizens in real time, without bureaucracy.
• Specialization and competence: Political decisions are prepared by groups of specialists in each sector, who inform the people in a neutral and complete manner, without propaganda or manipulation.
• Respect for national sovereignty: The wealth of the Dominican Republic belongs and will remain solely to the Dominican people. No international agreement can subordinate this principle.

2.2 THE DDS MICRO-GROUPS: POWER IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, COUNTRYSIDE AND CITY

The organizational foundation of DDS is the micro-group—small units of citizen participation of between 5 and 15 people, organized at the neighborhood, municipal, provincial, and regional levels. Each micro-group is autonomous within the DDS principles, connected to the global network, and capable of deliberating, proposing, and deciding on matters that concern them.

How do micro-groups work in the Dominican Republic?

In a country with 158 municipalities, more than 1,000 municipal districts and a population of 11 million inhabitants, the DDS micro-groups are organized as follows:

• Level 1 — Neighborhood/community micro-group: 5-15 neighbors who deliberate on immediate local issues (water, electricity, school, security, streets).
• Level 2 — Municipal Group: Coordination of all micro-groups in the municipality. They propose and approve decisions at the municipal level.
• Level 3 — Provincial Group: Provincial coordination, with groups of sectoral specialists (health, education, economy, environment).
• Level 4 — National Group: National policy decisions, with experts in each area, binding votes and total transparency.

▶ Concrete example: In the La Zurza neighborhood of Santo Domingo, a small group of 10 residents identified that the drinking water system was failing for 18 hours a day. They proposed a technical solution, submitted it to a vote by the municipal council, received funding from the participatory budget, and monitored the work in real time. All without intermediaries or corruption.

2.3 ddsAI and allddsAI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE

DDS integrates artificial intelligence technology in a pioneering way, guided by one fundamental principle: AI serves the people, not those in power. The two main tools are:

ddsAI — Every citizen's specialized assistant

ddsAI provides each DDS member with comprehensive, accurate, neutral, and independent information on all matters of public interest. It is not a disinformation algorithm or a manipulation tool: it is a verified information system that combats media monopolies and brainwashing.

• In the Dominican Republic: ddsAI reports on the real state of public finances, the progress of each investment project, the management of each official, real education and health data — all in real time and uncensored.
• Guaranteed neutrality: ddsAI is programmed to present ALL verified viewpoints, without favoring any political, religious, or ideological position.
• Accessible in Dominican Caribbean Spanish: The interface and language are adapted to the Dominican linguistic and cultural reality.

allddsAI — The democracy of artificial intelligences

allddsAI is DDS's most radical innovation: a system where multiple instances of artificial intelligence deliberate with each other, as full members with rights and duties within the DDS system, to provide the people with the most complete and balanced information possible about each decision.

• In Dominican practice: When the government proposes a tax reform, allddsAI will analyze its consequences from multiple perspectives — economic, social, environmental, regional — and will present each citizen with a comprehensive and understandable summary, without propaganda.
• Protection against media manipulation: Dominican media are highly concentrated and frequently aligned with political and economic interests. allddsAI is the technological counterweight that guarantees free and independent information.

2.4 THE DDS PLATFORM: SECURITY AND PROTECTION

DDS citizen participation takes place on proprietary, secure, and protected digital platforms. In the Dominican Republic, where media manipulation and disinformation are common political tools, DDS platforms guarantee:

• Verified Anonymity: Each member has a three-code DDS identity that simultaneously guarantees public anonymity and internal verification, eliminating manipulated voting and clientelistic pressure.
• Inviolability: DDS platforms are resistant to external attacks, hacking, and state or private manipulation.
• Traceability: Every decision, vote, and proposal is recorded immutably, guaranteeing total transparency.
• Accessibility: Designed to work on low-end devices and with slow connections — crucial for rural Dominican communities with limited internet access.

 

SECTION 3 — POLITICAL PROGRAM

3.1 CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT

The Dominican Constitution of 2010 establishes a strong presidential system that concentrates excessive power in the executive branch. DDS proposes a gradual transformation toward a system of shared governance where the people are the main actors, not spectators who delegate their sovereignty every four years.

Specific proposals:

• Limited and non-renewable terms: No official may hold the same office more than once in their lifetime. This eliminates the incentive to perpetuate themselves in power and compels a continuous renewal of leadership.
• Binding participatory budgeting: 30% of the national budget and 50% of municipal budgets are allocated directly by citizens through DDS micro-groups, with informed deliberation and verified electronic voting.
• Recall of mandates: Any official may be removed by popular vote if more than 55% of the citizens of his constituency so decide, through a verified and transparent process.
• Total transparency in real time: Every public contract, every government payroll, every state expenditure is published in real time on an open platform, audited by micro-groups and by ddsAI.
• Elimination of public funding for political parties: In 2025, the Dominican State provided RD$1.5 billion to political parties. DDS proposes eliminating this subsidy and allocating those resources to children living in poverty.

✔ DDS SOLUTION: Three-code DDS identity verification system: each citizen has a public (visible) code, a group code (for their micro-group) and a personal (secret) code, which guarantee verified participation without clientelistic manipulation.

Expected consequences:

• Elimination of electoral clientelism: Without public funding of parties and with secure identity verification, vote buying becomes technically impossible.
• 70% reduction in corruption scandals in 10 years, thanks to total transparency and continuous citizen oversight.
• A 40% increase in citizen satisfaction with institutions in 5 years, according to models compared with similar implementations.

3.2 JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

The Dominican justice system is slow for the powerful and ruthless for the weak. This asymmetry is the greatest threat to social cohesion. DDS proposes a radically different judicial system.

Specific proposals:

• Citizen oversight judiciary: Specialized DDS micro-groups monitor corruption case files in real time, ensuring that no case is dismissed due to political pressure.
• Automatic asset forfeiture: Any public official convicted of corruption automatically loses all their unjustified assets. The burden of proof is reversed: the official must demonstrate the lawful origin of their assets.
• Special Anti-Corruption Court: Composed of magistrates selected by verified meritocracy, with citizen participation in the selection process, and irremovable except for proven misconduct.
• No statute of limitations applies to corruption crimes: Corruption crimes never have a statute of limitations. Those responsible for the SENASA scandal and all historical corruption cases will be tried regardless of the time that has passed.
• Decent judicial salaries: Judges and prosecutors receive salaries that eliminate the temptation of corruption, financed with the forfeited assets of corrupt officials.

✔ DDS SOLUTION: ddsAI as a judicial auditing tool: AI monitors the progress of all court cases of public interest in real time, alerts micro-groups about irregularities, and publishes weekly reports accessible to all citizens.

Expected consequences:

• Recovery of at least RD$50 billion annually currently lost to corruption, according to conservative estimates.
• 60% reduction in new corruption cases in 8 years, thanks to the deterrent effect of imprescriptibility and extinction of ownership.
• Improvement of at least 15 points in the Corruption Perceptions Index in 6 years (from 37 to 52+/100).

3.3 LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND MUNICIPAL AUTONOMY

The Dominican Republic's 158 municipalities have very disparate capabilities. DDS proposes strengthening real, not just formal, municipal autonomy by providing local governments with resources, powers, and effective citizen oversight mechanisms.

Specific proposals:

• Real fiscal decentralization: 25% of all national revenues are automatically transferred to municipalities, with a formula based on population, needs and transparency performance.
• Municipal micro-groups with veto power: Local micro-groups can veto municipal investment projects that do not meet criteria of quality, transparency and community relevance.
• Public and participatory municipal budgets: Every peso of the municipal budget is allocated with citizen participation and published in real time.

 

SECTION 4 — ECONOMIC PROGRAM

4.1 DDS ECONOMIC MODEL: INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVE SOVEREIGNTY

The current Dominican economic model generates growth that doesn't reach everyone. DDS proposes a model where growth is inclusive by design: the rules of the game are designed so that prosperity is distributed, not concentrated.

4.1.1 Sovereignty over natural resources

The Dominican Republic possesses vast deposits of gold, silver, nickel, marble, and amber, as well as invaluable marine, forest, and agricultural biodiversity. Currently, a large portion of these resources are exploited by foreign companies under contractual conditions that favor the external investor, not the Dominican people.

• Renegotiation of all mining and natural resource contracts under the principle of sovereignty: the Dominican State obtains a minimum of 60% of the net benefits, with mandatory reinvestment of 40% in the affected local communities.
• Sovereign Natural Wealth Fund: All income from the exploitation of natural resources (mining, fishing, forestry) is deposited into an independent fund, managed by DDS micro-groups, intended for education, health and infrastructure.
• Immediate moratorium on new concessions: No new mining or natural resource concessions until the new sovereign contracts and citizen control mechanisms are in place.

✔ DDS SOLUTION: Concrete example: The Pueblo Viejo mine (Barrick Gold) generates billions of dollars. Under the DDS system, the Dominican people would receive 60% of the profits—approximately an additional US$300-400 million annually—earmarked for a national education fund.

4.1.2 Strategic economic diversification

Over-reliance on tourism makes the Dominican economy vulnerable. DDS proposes intelligent diversification, leveraging existing strengths and developing new, high-value-added sectors.

• Technology and digital sector: The Dominican Republic has the potential to become a technology hub in the Caribbean. DDS invests in digital infrastructure, technology training, and technology free zones with the State participating as an equal partner.
• Sovereign agro-industry: Strengthening the agricultural value chain — cocoa, coffee, avocado, tropical fruits — with collectively owned cooperatives that eliminate intermediaries and maximize producer income.
• Domestic pharmaceutical industry: The Dominican Republic has installed pharmaceutical capacity. DDS is developing it to reduce dependence on imports and generate high-value exports.
• Blue economy: Sustainable management of marine resources, with exclusive fishing zones for Dominican fishermen and a national aquaculture plan.
• Renewable energies: Planned transition towards solar, wind and biodiesel energy, turning the current electricity deficit into an opportunity for energy sovereignty.

4.2 ELECTRIC SECTOR: DEFINITIVE SOLUTION

The Dominican Republic's electricity sector is a decades-long scandal. The US$1.8 billion in annual losses are not merely due to technical inefficiency; they are the result of a corrupt structure, with predatory contracts with private power generators, institutionalized energy theft, and clientelistic management of distribution.

⚠ CRITICAL PROBLEM: US$1.8 billion lost annually in the electricity sector = 10 top-tier hospitals each year that are never built.

DDS Action Plan for the Electricity Sector:

• Full audit of all contracts with private generators: Renegotiation or termination of contracts that do not meet criteria of efficiency, fair price and transparency.
• Mandatory smart meters with citizen oversight: Installation of smart meters in all homes, with data accessible in real time to community micro-groups. Eliminates energy theft without the need for repression.
• Community electric cooperatives: Rural and peri-urban communities establish their own solar energy microgrids, with collective ownership and self-management supervised by DDS.
• Goal of 70% renewable energy in 10 years: National plan with mixed investment (State + cooperatives + regulated private capital), generating energy sovereignty and 50,000 green jobs.
• Guaranteed social tariff: Basic energy consumption (up to 200 kWh/month) is free for households in poverty, financed by the savings from loss reduction.

✔ DDS SOLUTION: With a 50% reduction in losses (from US$1.8 billion to US$900 million annually), the savings generated fully cover the social tariff for all households in poverty and finance the renewable transition.

4.3 PROGRESSIVE AND FAIR TAX REFORM

The Dominican tax system is regressive: it taxes consumption (which disproportionately affects the poor) and favors big business. DDS proposes a reform to end this structural injustice.

Specific measures:

• Progressive income tax: Those who earn more pay more, proportionally. The very wealthy contribute according to their ability to pay, eliminating current exemptions and privileges.
• Tax on non-productive assets: Unused or underutilized urban lands and properties pay a progressive tax that incentivizes their productive or social use.
• Differentiated VAT: Zero VAT on basic foodstuffs, medicines, public transport and education. Reduced VAT on everyday consumer goods. High VAT on luxury goods.
• Effective fight against tax evasion: ddsAI analyzes the tax patterns of large companies in real time and detects inconsistencies. Specialized micro-groups monitor and report evasion.
• Special tax on financial speculation: Large-volume speculative financial transactions pay a minimum rate that generates income without affecting real productive investment.

✔ DDS SOLUTION: Projection: A progressive tax reform generates additional revenues of RD$80,000-120,000 million annually, enough to double investment in health and education without increasing public debt.

Expected consequences of the tax reform:

• Reduction of the tax burden on lower-income workers by 40%.
• Increase total revenue by 25-30% in 5 years, without affecting the purchasing power of the working class.
• Gradual elimination of subsidies to companies with profits exceeding RD$500 million annually.

4.4 FORMALIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND DECENT WORK

Fifty-four percent of Dominican workers are in the informal sector—without social security, job security, or access to credit. This is the main flaw in the Dominican economic model.

DDS proposals:

• Guaranteed minimum living wage: The minimum wage is automatically indexed to the cost of the basic family food basket. No working Dominican can earn less than what is necessary to live with dignity.
• Simplified formalization: Informal businesses and workers can formalize with a one-step, online process, without bureaucracy, with tax incentives for the first three years.
• Universal social security: Every Dominican — formal or informal — has access to the health system and a guaranteed minimum pension, financed by the progressive tax reform.
• Worker cooperatives: DDS actively promotes collectively owned cooperatives as an alternative to precarious work, with preferential financing and technical training.

 

SECTION 5 — FINANCIAL PROGRAM

5.1 SOVEREIGN MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC DEBT

The Dominican Republic's public debt—which approaches 60% of GDP and consumes 24% of tax revenue in interest payments—is a legacy of decades of mismanagement. DDS proposes a comprehensive strategy to escape the debt trap without default and without austerity measures that would disproportionately burden the poorest citizens.

DDS debt management strategy:

• Citizen audit of public debt: All debt contracts are audited by specialized DDS groups to identify abusive conditions, irregularities or illegitimate debt (contracted through corruption).
• Strategic renegotiation: Debt identified as having been generated by corruption or abusive conditions is renegotiated unilaterally. The international community will recognize the legitimacy of this process if it is supported by full citizen transparency.
• Fiscal golden rule: The State cannot incur debt to finance current spending. Debt is only permitted for productive investment with a verifiable return and approved by citizen vote.
• Reduction of debt service to 15% of tax revenues in 10 years: Through a combination of economic growth, tax reform and reduction of unproductive spending.
• Prohibition of sovereign bonds to finance state consumption: The State cannot compete with the productive sector for bank credit by issuing high-yield bonds to cover current expenses.

✔ DDS SOLUTION: Each percentage point of GDP freed from debt service is equivalent to RD$87 billion available for health, education and infrastructure.

5.2 INCLUSIVE FINANCIAL SYSTEM

68% of Dominicans lack property titles, excluding them from the formal credit system. DDS proposes democratizing access to financial capital.

• Mass regularization of property titles: A 5-year national program to regularize all outstanding property titles, using blockchain technology to guarantee inviolability and transparency.
• Citizen Development Bank: Public development bank with initial capital from the Sovereign Fund of Natural Resources, which grants credit at accessible rates (max. 8% per year) for housing, education, entrepreneurship and cooperatives.
• Community microcredit: DDS micro-groups manage revolving microcredit funds, with collective supervision and joint guarantee, eliminating the need for formal collateral.
• Universal financial education: National program of basic financial education integrated into DDS micro-groups and the school curriculum.

 

SECTION 6 — SOCIAL PROGRAM

6.1 EDUCATION: STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION

Dominican education invests but doesn't produce the expected results because the problem isn't just one of resources: it's one of pedagogical model, institutional management, and teacher quality. DDS proposes a comprehensive transformation.

Specific proposals:

• Quality education as an absolute right: From early childhood (0-6 years) to university, free, with guaranteed quality and accessible to every Dominican.
• Excellence in teacher training: Teachers are the most important professionals in the country. DDS proposes decent and competitive salaries (equivalent to the OECD average as a percentage of GDP per capita), mandatory continuing education, and transparent merit-based evaluation.
• 21st Century Curriculum: Critical thinking, applied mathematics, science, technology, languages (Spanish, English, Haitian Creole for border areas) and DDS civic education.
• Sovereign educational digitization: Low-cost educational devices, guaranteed connectivity in all schools, and our own educational platform (not dependent on foreign corporations).
• Universal school cafeterias: All Dominican students receive free nutritious food at school, eliminating hunger as a barrier to learning.
• PISA assessment as a national goal: Achieving the PISA average in reading, mathematics and science in 12 years — an ambitious but achievable goal with the DDS plan.

▶ Example: In the municipality of Monte Plata, with an active DDS educational micro-group, parents monitor teacher attendance, the condition of school infrastructure, and learning outcomes in real time. Irregularities are resolved in days, not years.

6.2 HEALTH: UNIVERSAL QUALITY SYSTEM

The Dominican health system combines formal coverage (SENASA, SNS) with highly heterogeneous actual quality, high levels of corruption, and profound regional disparities. DDS proposes a truly functional universal system.

Specific proposals:

• Real universal health: Every Dominican has free access to primary care, hospital care and essential medicines, regardless of their employment or economic status.
• SENASA anti-corruption reform: Transparent management with direct supervision of DDS micro-groups, real-time auditing by ddsAI, and automatic sanctions for misappropriation of funds.
• Community hospital network: One first-level hospital for every 50,000 inhabitants, with guaranteed basic equipment, resident doctors and telemedicine connected to specialists in urban centers.
• National policy on generic medicines: National production of essential generic medicines, 70% reduction in family pharmaceutical spending.
• Mental health as a priority: The Dominican Republic has a high prevalence of untreated mental health disorders. DDS includes universal mental health coverage in the public system.
• Prevention as a policy: Nutritional education programs, physical activity, prevention of chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension) that reduce the long-term cost of the system.

✔ DDS SOLUTION: With the elimination of corruption in SENASA (estimated at 15-20% of the budget) and tax reform, the Dominican health system can be fully financed without additional deficit.

6.3 HOUSING: A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT

The Dominican Republic's housing deficit, combined with the fact that 68% of homes lack legal title, constitutes a social emergency. DDS proposes a massive program for decent housing.

Specific proposals:

• National Title Regularization Program: A 5-year project, using blockchain technology, to regularize all pending property titles. Every Dominican with their title can access the financial system.
• Housing cooperatives: DDS promotes housing construction and management cooperatives, with state land and financing from the Citizen Development Bank at 4% per year for 30 years.
• Tax on speculative vacant housing: Properties kept vacant in high-demand urban areas pay a progressive tax that incentivizes their placement on the affordable rental market.
• Fair social housing: The State builds a public housing stock for affordable rental for low-income families, managed by DDS community micro-groups.

6.4 CITIZEN SECURITY: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS

Insecurity cannot be solved with more police or more prisons if its causes are not addressed: inequality, economic exclusion, selective impunity, organized crime, and institutional distrust.

DDS proposals:

• Community policing: The police work with DDS micro-groups, responding to the security priorities of each community, not to central directives disconnected from local reality.
• Crime prevention: Massive investment in youth programs in sports, culture, technical training and entrepreneurship in areas with the highest crime rates.
• Prison reform: Dominican prisons are currently schools for crime. DDS proposes a prison system focused on rehabilitation, with education, work, and social reintegration.
• Road safety as an emergency: National road safety plan with investment in public transportation, civic education, speed control, and effective penalties. Goal: to reduce the 2,500 annual deaths by 60% in 8 years.
• Smart border with Haiti: Humanitarian but orderly border management, with DDS registration technology, dignified reception centers and international coordination.

6.5 RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY AND PROTECTION OF MINORITIES

DDS guarantees that no Dominican will be discriminated against because of their origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic. Dominican cultural diversity—Afro-Caribbean, Taíno, European—is a treasure that DDS protects and celebrates.

• Effective constitutional protection of minorities: Legal and citizen mechanisms to prevent and punish all forms of discrimination.
• Respect for cultural traditions: Merengue, bachata, carnival, patron saint festivals, gastronomy and all Dominican cultural expressions are protected heritage.
• Full religious freedom: All religious denominations are respected and equally protected by the State. No religion receives institutional privileges.
• Real gender equality: Gender parity in all elected and appointed positions, equal pay for equal work, and elimination of all forms of gender-based violence.
• Humanitarian migration policy: Haitian migrants are human beings with rights. DDS proposes an orderly, humane, and sustainable migration policy that resolves the problem without violating fundamental rights.

 

SECTION 7 — IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

The transformation proposed by DDS is profound but gradual, orderly, and respectful of the democratic process. There are no traumatic ruptures, no violence, no chaos. There is a clear plan, with phases, responsibilities, and success metrics.

PHASE 1 — FOUNDATION (Months 1-12)

• Launch of the first 500 DDS micro-groups in the 10 most populated provinces of the Dominican Republic (National District, Santiago, La Altagracia, San Pedro de Macorís, La Vega, Puerto Plata, Espaillat, Duarte, Peravia, Barahona).
• Activation of the ddsAI and allddsAI platforms in Dominican Spanish, with information modules on national budget, public services and citizens' rights.
• Training of 5,000 DDS coordinators: Citizens who facilitate local micro-groups, trained in direct democracy, use of platforms and conflict resolution.
• First citizen audit: Micro-groups audit the municipal budget of their localities and publish the results.
• Campaign to regularize 50,000 property titles as a pilot project in three provinces.

PHASE 2 — EXPANSION (Years 2-3)

• 5,000 active micro-groups covering all municipalities in the country.
• First participatory budget: 10% of the municipal budget is allocated through citizen voting in micro-groups.
• First citizen legislative proposals: Micro-groups generate three popular bills to present to Congress.
• Pilot program of electric cooperatives in 5 provinces: 20 community solar microgrids in operation.
• Regularization of 500,000 property titles: Access to credit for half a million Dominican families.

PHASE 3 — CONSOLIDATION (Years 4-6)

• Progressive tax reform approved with verified citizen support: Additional revenues of RD$80 billion annually.
• Universal health system fully operational, with zero cases of corruption at SENASA for 18 consecutive months.
• 50% renewable energy in the national electricity matrix.
• Reduction of poverty to 10% (from the current 17.3%).
• Public debt reduced to 50% of GDP with a clear downward trajectory.

PHASE 4 — MATURITY (Years 7-10)

• The Dominican Republic as a regional model of direct democracy: Delegations from other Caribbean and Latin American countries visit and replicate the DDS system.
• GDP per capita increased by 45% compared to the 2026 level.
• Corruption Perceptions Index: 55/100 (up from 37 in 2026) — low corruption zone.
• Extreme poverty: 0% — eradicated.
• Renewable energy: 70% of the electricity mix.
• Informal employment reduced from 54% to 25%.

 

SECTION 8 — CONCRETE BENEFITS FOR EVERY DOMINICAN

The DDS program for the Dominican Republic is not an abstract promise. It is a set of concrete transformations with verifiable consequences for the daily lives of every citizen.

CITIZEN PROFILE	CONCRETE BENEFITS WITH DDS
Family in poverty	Legalized property title → access to credit. Free basic energy. Universal healthcare without co-payment. School meals for children. Microcredit for entrepreneurship.
Informal worker	Simplified formalization. Guaranteed social security. Minimum wage = basic food basket. Universal minimum pension.
Peasant / farmer	Agricultural cooperative with direct market access. Fair prices without intermediaries. Agricultural credit at 5% annual interest. Crop insurance.
Young Dominican	Free university education. Certified technical training. Employment in green cooperatives. Real political participation from age 16.
Dominican woman	Gender parity in all positions. Equal pay. Gender-based violence as the number one security priority. Universal reproductive health.
Honest businessman	Clear, consistent, and transparent rules. Less corruption = lower illegal costs. Access to a more robust internal market. Fair competition.
Elderly person	Guaranteed universal minimum pension. Priority free healthcare. Essential medicines at no cost. Dignified care.

 

SECTION 9 — CONCLUSION: THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC THAT THE PEOPLE DESERVE

The Dominican Republic has all the ingredients to be a prosperous, just, and free country. It has extraordinary natural resources, a rich and resilient culture, a talented and resourceful global diaspora, a strategic geographic location, and a Dominican people who have historically demonstrated their ability to rise above adversity.

What has been lacking until now is a political system that puts that potential at the service of ALL Dominicans, not just a privileged few. A system where the people are not spectators of their own history, but rather the protagonists and decision-makers of their own destiny.

DirectDemocracyS doesn't promise a paradise overnight. It promises something more valuable: a transparent, honest, participatory, and verifiable process of real transformation. A path where every step is decided by the Dominican people, overseen by the Dominican people, and benefits the Dominican people.

The riches of the Dominican Republic—its land, its sea, its subsoil, its culture, its labor—are and will be solely the property of the Dominican people. This is not a political promise. It is the unwavering principle upon which DDS builds, in every country of the world, the only democracy worthy of the name: real, direct, continuous, complete, and immediate.

Power to the Dominican people — always, completely, forever!

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