Santo Domingo.-The ratification of four members of the Central Electoral Board for the period 2024-2028 has been well received by a large part of society, including opposition leaders and legislators, who highlight the work carried out by the institution since its members were elected in the year 2020.
What has received criticism has been the promotion of the new member of the Plenary, Hirayda Marcelle Fernández, who served as substitute for Samir Rafael Chami Isa in the last four years, and now replaces Patricia Lorenzo.
Criticism of her choice as a regular member arises because she supposedly did not perform any function as a substitute, despite the fact that the president of the institution, Román Jáquez, assigned functions to her peers during the process of the last elections, and that even, set up offices to carry out the work; However, Hirayda Marcelle Fernández is criticized for not having gone to her space.
Legislators such as Omar Fernández and Celinée Méndez, from Fuerza del Pueblo, describe the selection as balanced and hope that they will handle the next elections as they handled the previous ones.
PLD without candle at funeral
The spokesperson for the Dominican Liberation Party in the Chamber of Deputies, Gustavo Sánchez, expressed that the PLD did not want to distribute itself like a cake to the Central Electoral Board, which is why it did not make any suggestion for its members to be chosen.
Sánchez welcomed the appointment of the Central Electoral Board, but made it clear that the PLD had no influence on that choice.
He pointed out that this is the Board of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), reiterating that the purple party has no jurisdiction in the decisions that were made for the election, and they did not want it to be seen as if they were looking for divisions.
Also the president of the Equity and Justice Foundation, Fidel Lorenzo, described the current JCE as a luxury space for the country.
Two periods in a row
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Román Jáquez becomes the first president of the JCE to repeat for two consecutive terms. His time at the institution has been one of those that has received the least criticism in recent decades.
Interview a hundred or so to choose just one
Disagreement. The senator for Santiago Rodríguez, Antonio Marte, questioned why interviewing more than a hundred people to finally choose just one.
“So I say, why interview a hundred or so people to name just one? For that reason, practically the disagreement that I had,” explained Marte, who stated that from the beginning it was said that only three members of the Plenary would be left, but then it changed and they left four.
He revealed that the other one who was going to be left out is Rafael Armando Santelises, who was at number 30 of those evaluated and appeared at number three. He said it practically went out of the box because someone lowered a line.
