Santo Domingo.-The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) has been relentless with its militants detractors, barely flimps against renunciations of its members and has not trembled the pulse to apply expulsions when its main authorities consider it necessary.
The most recent case is that of former senator José del Castillo Saviñón and his wife Clarinee Ovalles, as well as other leaders.
In a letter sent by the National Court of Ethics and Discipline of the PLD, chaired by Alejandrina Germán, both were called to appear for “acts against the organization” that were not specified.
Castillo Saviñón resigned from his militancy of the PLD before the meeting to which he had been summoned took place.
In the recent history of the PLD, a summons to appear before this Court is almost never translated into a real defense exercise, although they represent an attempt to keep the procedure to cover any claim before the Superior Electoral or Administrative Court, as the case may be.
For the members of the Peledeist Central Committee, a call before its disciplinary court is assumed as a step prior to expulsion.
Background
This happened with Carlos Amarante Baret, summoned under the same modality, who before the audience formally presented his resignation.
The same happened with Deputy Carlos Sánchez, who before the citation advanced his departure from the party.
Under suspicion
In the case of Del Castillo Saviñón, the distancing signals were evident for months.
During the last ordinary Congress of the PLD, its presence was out of place.
His participation remembered what Felix Bautista had at the time after the 2019 internal fracture, when his own companions watched him with suspicion, in public and without dissimulation.
Del Castillo Saviñón had previously resigned to be part of the Political Committee seeking to awaken a chain reaction that gave way to a new litter of leaders in the party, but that did not work. Former President Danilo Medina continued at the head of the PLD.
Officially, the Peledeist dome has shown a discourse of continuity and strength, ensuring with its actions that the resignations, even of historical figures, are “charges that are left on the road” and that do not affect the structure or mood of the purple party.
However, the accumulation of exits sends the political message that internal bleeding continues and tensions between its leadership have not ceased.
The PLD seems to bet to close ranks and project that those who leave do not represent a substantial loss.
Since the last election campaign in which the bleeding of Peledeist leaders who passed mainly to the people’s force, former President Danilo Medina has reacted, reacted to the streets to meet the Peledeists, was notorious.
At present, Medina executes a program of visits to provinces during the weekends.
Purple and green fight
—1— Sangria
The party led by Leonel Fernández has been the greatest beneficiary of the abundance.
—2— Survival
In the next elections the supremacy between the force of the people and the PLD will be defined.
