His office is also considering financing, prices, quality, and delivery time. He said there have been offers to supply buses from Brazil, the United States, Korea, Costa Rica, and Mexico. He said the government will be purchasing the vehicles and then negotiating with the private sector. Press reports complained that this same method was used in the past, and that most beneficiaries never paid the government. Several news commentators have called for a break with the old monopolies, that assigned the better routes to a small group of taxi drivers and bus syndicates.
Many people are in favor of allowing various private companies to enter the public transport system.
He said they are working very fast in order make that deadline. The government has announced that it will begin an austerity program and suspend new appointments, after expenditure on salaries reached 100 percent more than that during Dr Balaguer's administration. Opposition Senators said that the increase in salaries is mostly the result of the large number of deputy ministers that have been appointed with high remuneration. Most of these people were active in helping President Leonel Fernandez become Head of State. The increase in the number of deputy ministers is probably against the law as most ministries have statutory limits on such appointments.