Daniel Gibbs was questioned by the local press on the upcoming territorial elections. "The time for the campaign will indeed arrive," he confided without officially confessing his desire to run for a second term.
These four and a half years spent as president of the community, Daniel Gibbs describes them as "difficult term". "Difficult because of Irma, the social crisis, the events related to the PPRN, the crisis related to covid-19 and difficult relations at one time with the state," he argues. “It was a sacrificed mandate,” he adds.
“Sacrificed” because the leader of the Union for Democracy could not undertake the work he had planned but those which were imposed on him directly and indirectly by Irma. “But someone had to do it,” he admits. "Today we do things legally and not as legally as possible," he insists.
In addition to post-hurricane reconstruction, Daniel Gibbs had to tackle “the mistakes of the past”. “I had no choice,” he admits. And one of the big projects was to reform the local administration.
Because the contracts were not made in full respect of the law, the State services stopped them.
Upstream but also at the level of supplier payments. "To date, we still have 33 million euros blocked while the COM has the necessary cash to pay these suppliers," he explains. “33 million euros is huge! Nationally, this would represent 130 billion euros! », He comments. "But my fear is that all this work involved will be misused in the future," he concedes. (soualigapost.com)
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