Santo Domingo.- “I am doing much work in the party. If they want a man of my profile then they should look to me” was the Interior and Police Minister’s response when asked about his potential candidacy for the next presidential elections.

Franklin Almeyda said he doesn’t know how to feign and that he’s available for the decision of the ruling PLD party as one of its candidates.

The official, interviewed in the Channel 9 program Hoy Mismo, said he hasn’t launched his candidacy abroad, as has been reported after he participated in a rally in New York City, where he said his country needs a leader with his profile.

He affirmed that it was a gathering with Dominicans where he spoke among other things, about citizen security.

In addition to Almeyda, the PLD senior members Danilo Medina, Jose Tomas Perez and Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal are also reportedly making contacts for a possible presidential run.

On the topic of immigrants, the Interior and Police Minister said that if a foreigner cannot prove the time they say has been in the country, they won’t be able to regularize their condition as resident and will have to return to their place of origin.

The official clarified that the migration regulation doesn’t contemplate an amnesty, and instead a stabilization of the condition of foreigner. “Amnesty is a pardon for everybody and it is not what the Dominican norm contemplates in that aspect.”