The special committee of the Chamber of Deputies representative of the study of the project that would reform Law No. 15-19, Organic of the Electoral Regime, approved this Wednesday to render a report favorable to the piece, as it was sent from the Senate.
He report it will be known in the next session of the lower house scheduled for next February 13, according to the president of that special commission, Elías Wessin Chávez.
“Deep down, the PLD does not want the approval of the law, it uses automated voting and turncoats as a subterfuge” “PRM block spokesman
In that way, the deputies accepted the 26 most recent modifications included by the senators, many of which had been agreed with the deputies.
14 votes out of 21
The decision was made this Wednesday after exhausting the second day of work. Wessin Chávez explained that the report favorable was approved with 14 votes in favor of the 21 deputies present at the meeting.
“Of the 21 members of the special commission appointed by the Chamber of Deputies14 voted in favor of the approval of the project in its entirety as it came from the Senate”, he revealed.
He stressed that during the debates the commissioners discussed all modified points by the Senate, which increased the bill by 16 more articles, which he assured “was done without any problem.”
The bill, which was approved in the Senate on February 1, contains 326 articles and 619 pages. The piece, originally presented by the Central Electoral Board (JCE), was submitted by senators Ramón Rogelio Genao and Alexis Victoria Yeb.
Conflicting allegations
Before starting the meeting, the spokesperson for the bloc of deputies of the Modern Revolutionary Party, Julito Fulcar, accused the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) of boycotting the approval of that initiative, using turncoat and automated voting to achieve that goal.
“In the end, they are subterfuges to ensure that the law is not approved and then saddle the PRM that opposes the approval of the law and we are not going to carry that weight that is a demand from society that we modify the law,” he said. .
He said that the intention of the PRM was to agree on the bill, but if they did not achieve those objectives, it would be approved with the favorable vote of the majority.
Meanwhile, PLD deputy Gustavo Sánchez recalled that the official party needs to agree with the PLD to approve the piece with a qualified majority. He assured that for the purple party it is “non-negotiable” to rule out that turncoats be penalized and that automated voting be established. You understand that the registration of deputies of the PLD legitimizes the approval of laws.
