The alleged fraud against former President Leonel Fernández in the internal primaries of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), on October 6, 2019, opened a gap for the People’s Force to support the reform project of Organic Law 15-19 of the Regime Electoral in the Senate and criticize the insistence of the peledeístas in including the electronic vote in the piece.
The Senator of the People’s Force Bautista Roja Gomez He assured that the PLD spokesman, Yván Lorenzo, wants with the inclusion of electronic voting in the Electoral Law, to justify the biggest fraud that has been committed against Dominican democracy.
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While Lorenzo declared this morning that it would be a setback to return to manual voting and also that defectors should not be punished.
Likewise, the spokesman for the PLD legislature block, Juan Julio Campos, informed that they will submit that the Electoral Regime Bill be modified as soon as it is presented in the Lower House.
Another who entered the debate was the spokesman for the block of deputies of the People’s Force, Omar Fernández, who announced that his organization will support the electoral reform project approved yesterday in second reading by the Senate.
“I am taking the floor because this political migrant, spokesperson for the PLD, I say migrant so as not to use the term defector, has undressed and demonstrated the real objective of why he insists on the issue of electronic voting. He wants to make transparent the most blatant fraud that has been committed against Dominican society, on October 6, 2019, because he is part of that, he was part of that, and he knows in what scenario and how it was forged,” said Rojas Gómez.
He added that “he knows that with the complicity of the Junta, at one in the morning of the following day, violating the Constitution of the Republic, they were still voting, that is, on October 7, 2019, they were voting to steal those primaries, and that is what he wants to cure and he will not be able to cure it, because he closed the false one”.
On his side, Lorenzo reiterated that it is necessary to include electronic voting and counting in the same way because that would expedite the counting of the results of the next elections.
He said that the manual count would be a setback for the country’s democratic and institutional system. “For example, here in the Senate, before they voted manually, not anymore, now it’s electronic, we can’t go back to the past, but we can’t reward those who reach elective office for one party and then go to another,” he said. .
