The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco, stated that the bill that declares the Santo Domingo Beltway as José Francisco Peña Gómez did not have the name of Professor Juan Bosch.
Pacheco pointed out that the Chamber of Deputies approved the initiative of Senator Cristóbal Venerado Castillo, in an attempt to highlight Peña Gómez and without the intention of taking away the merits of Professor Juan Bosch, since both were pillars of Dominican democracy.
In this sense, the senator for Hato Mayor, Venerado Castillo, clarified that the aforementioned street is known as Circunvalación Santo Domingo and although at one time it was proposed that it be named after Professor Juan Bosch, it did not prosper.
The also spokesperson for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in the Senate of the Republic is the proponent of the legislative initiative that was turned into law, through which the name of Peña Gómez was named.
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“It is one thing for someone to say that it should be given this or that name and another thing is for there to be a law that supports it. Once an attempt was made to submit a project to name it after Professor Juan Bosch but it did not succeed, however the one that I submitted several times, that of José Francisco Peña Gómez, did succeed,” he explained.
The Law approved by both legislative chambers, which honors the memory of the emblematic leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, the Santo Domingo Beltway is only pending promulgation by the Executive Branch.
He said that he submitted the project a long time ago and that it failed several times, but that it finally reached consensus, both in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies for its approval, so this is the first time that this highway has been a name by law.
