Santo Domingo.- The president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), engineer Michael Vargas Maldonado emphatically rejected the indiscriminate purchase of political leaders from opposition parties.
He stressed that the ruling party “shows them as trophies to Dominican society in public acts, trying to appear support that citizens deny it every day due to their obvious government inefficiency and with the aim of distracting everyone from the aggravated evils that affect to the nation.”
He added that the government must desist from the pernicious practice of promoting turncoats, since this contributes to undermining democracy, the party system, and eroding institutions.
The approach of Michael Vargas Maldonado agrees with the historical discourse of his party, which insists on reiterating its anti-transfuguism doctrinal vision.
“Consequently, we criticize that the ruling party continues these practices of the old policy,” he said.
PRD considers overcoming the turncoat is a challenge; this practice violates the dignity of political leaders
The PRD insisted on qualifying as “despicable” the aforementioned action from the ruling party to attract, with bad arts, political leaders of the opposition.
This, with the aggravating circumstance that at present, in particular, emphasis is placed on damaging the PRD.
He considered that overcoming the turncoat is a challenge and that this practice violates the dignity of political leaders.
“As a party, we understand that the eradication of this corrupt practice, through the co-optation of leaders, represents one of the greatest challenges for democracy; even more so, when the system and the norm that must guarantee the overcoming of this type of ills are broken or broken”, specified a press release from the organization.
“We recognize that there is a regulatory gap in the law to punish turncoat, which makes it easier for this to be practiced as an Olympic sport without consequences,” he added.
He also said that “it is necessary for the political leadership of the country to overcome these perverse practices to the partisan and democratic institutions.”
The PRD reiterated the rejection expressed by its president “to these maneuvers that the governments seek to divide the political organizations.”
“We also warn that the opposition political leaders must be clear and very aware that if the government party has been unable to meet the commitments with its militancy, as well as those contracted with conquered adversaries by 2020, it will be less able to meet the new with those attracted in the current period, where re-electionist demagoguery prevails”, they pointed out.
