Santo Domingo.- President Louis Abinader issued decree no. 333-22, of June 23, 2022, which creates and integrates an honorary consultative commission that will be in charge of presenting to the Executive power a draft law for the purpose of updating the current legislation on freedom of expression.
With the purpose of unifying criteria around the legislative regulation of the aforementioned fundamental right, the advisory commission has been made up of a plural team of jurists and communicators.
The commission is made up of Namphi Rodríguez, who will act as its executive director, Miguel Antonio Franjul, Inés Aizpún Viñes, Persio Maldonado, Luis Eduardo Lora Iglesias (Huchi), Edith Febles Batista, Eric Raful Pérez, Hermógenes Acosta de los Santos, Miguel Ángel Prestol González, Jimena Conde Jiminián, Aurelio Henríquez, Elvira Lora Peña and Gabriela Beltré.
In order to make the eventual bill the result of a broad consensus with civil society, the commission created by Abinader is empowered to schedule workshops with the different sectors linked to freedom of expression and dissemination of thought.
The Consultative Commission must present the draft of the corresponding normative instrument, in a term not greater than ninety (90) days counted from the issuance of the indicated decree that conforms it.
