In a session that lasted until three in the morning on Thursday, with 159 votes in favor and four against the Chamber of Deputies approved the Criminal Code In second reading, although with some Modifications.
Yesterday, the Senate He reviewed said Modifications To complete the process and approved them, leaving the path open to send the piece to the president of the Republic, Luis Abinaderfor its promulgation.
And that is the big question that everyone is asked right now: will promulgate Luis Abinader that Criminal Code?
He president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pachecohe asked the president to I will not observe the document and what became lawclaiming the hard work done by legislators.
But he also sent a message to the president, via questioning of his family, for the position they set the First lady Raquel Arbaje and his daughters Adriana Margarita, Graciela Lucía and Esther Lucía.
The four signed a digital document that has more than a thousand rubrics opposing still code which is considered archaic and that violates women’s rights.
“To our dear first lady and the daughters of the president: We deserved to be told in another way, I didn’t like deputies either … “he said Pachecoby leading the Extraordinary session.
And he added: “These 144 soldiers of this democracy, we are very hard and strong so that this man is sitting there in the National Palace“He said, curling president he Electoral support that they gave him.
Signs
Although the approval of the three causes to allow the abortion It has been the most popular theme around Criminal Codethat has remained current Since the end of the 19th century, there are many other provisions that, it is understood, must be taken into consideration.
Is flexible with the discriminationeither by race, creed, cult, sexual preference or gender, that is, violates human rights.
It is also light with Penalty And the types of violence against women.
Eliminates the concept of incest of sexual aggressions and allows, among other things, the prescription of Crimes related to the Administrative corruption.
The aspiration to establish the accumulation of Penalty For the Crimes He vanished, although some considerations of the Attorney General’s Office were taken to harden the Penalty against some Crimes.
The abinader dilemma
After making a Electoral campaignin 2019, in which it was flag bearer of the three causesadded to the positions of the presidential familyit would be uphill to think that the president will not observe the Criminal Code.
But the political cost that would represent one decision Like that, still missing three years from the last abinader mandate, in a game which seems to weour down the differences.
After the deputies approved the Criminal Code in Second Reading, the modifications they applied were ratified in the Senate that endorsed the changes made in some articles.
The piece now passes to the Executive Power, where the president has two options: promulgate the code and officially turn it into law, after shooting for two decades in Congress, or making observations and returning it to legislators.
In this case, these also have two options: accept the president’s observations and approve again, or reject them. In the latter case, the code becomes law, despite the possible presidential objection.
