Santo Domingo. – He president of the republicLuis Abinader, will lead this Sunday the act of proclamation of the new Dominican Constitution.
According to Presidential Communications, the activity will be broadcast live through a network of national and local television channels and social networks.
The constitutional reform touches on 10 articles of the Magna Carta and adds a new one, 278.
Among the changes to the Supreme Law are the reduction of the number of deputies, from 190 to 170. This is 158 deputies per constituency, five national and seven from overseas.
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The distribution of the territorial representatives before the Lower House to be elected in the 2028 elections will be carried out based on the voter registry used in the congressional elections of May 2024.
The modification constitutional It also covers the unification of the presidential, legislative and municipal elections, to be held on the third Sunday of May, every four years, starting in 2032.
Article 209 of the Magna Carta states that the electoral assemblies will operate in electoral colleges that will be organized in accordance with the law.
“The electoral colleges will open every four years to elect the president and vice president of the Republic, legislative representatives, parliamentarians from international organizations, municipal authorities and other officials or elective representatives. These elections will be held on the third Sunday of the month of May,” the article indicates.
In the constitutional reform, a stone clause was also established in the current presidential election model of two terms and never again, to prevent future leaders from reforming the Constitution for their own benefit.
A provision was included, article 278, which establishes that no popularly elected official may benefit from a constitutional reform during his term when it concerns the rules of nomination, election and permanence of the position he occupies.
Likewise, it was established that the Attorney General of the Republic is not a member of the National Council of the Judiciary (CNM), but that the president of the Constitutional Court (TC) is, so the members of the Council will continue to be eight.
The reformed text indicates that the President of the Republic, at the beginning of his mandate, will propose to the CNM one person to be appointed attorney general of the Republic and seven to be appointed as deputy attorneys, in accordance with the law. This would be the 40th constitutional reform in the history of the country.
