The Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Palizaassured this Friday that the proposed reform to the Constitution It does not have particular interests and it should not have colors either and it should be of unity.
“This reform has no particular interests, and it should not have colors either, and it must be of unity,” Paliza said during an interview at the radio program The Direction of the Morningby Rumba 98.5 FM.
He added that Dominican society demands the independence of the Public Ministry, one of the main reasons why the government is leading the proposal to once again modify the national constitution.
“The first decision of the President (Luis Abinader) when he came to power was to institutionalize an independent Public Ministry and we are on the way to generating the steps that allow us to consolidate it over time,” he said.
He indicated that the aforementioned proposal seeks to establish an objective and independent judicial system not only at the functional and administrative level, but also to generate “total political independence.”
“The main purpose of that proposal is that, to consolidate that beyond the decision of a president, beyond what may be the opinion of the current president or those that may come in the future,” he specified.
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Janet Camilo
Regarding the subject, the national vice president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Janet Camiloassured that there is no real reason for the government to promote a constitutional reform that is not the political interest of the authorities on duty.
He added that, in consideration of the PRDThis is not the time and there are no elements proposed to process a constitutional reform as the government has proposed.
“The PRD has ratified that it is not the time for a constitutional reform to be made at this juncture in which we live because there is no element that is raised on the dialogue table that merits a new social pact,” he said during a telephone interview on the radio space.
Camilo indicated that, of the 49 reforms made to the national constitution, only a few were made on a large scale because in most cases it was “to remove or add the vice-presidential figure or to remove or add the issue of re-election or to adapt processes elections for convenience always of the political class in governance”.
The former Minister for Women He assured that there are currently many other situations, of greater importance, to which the government must pay attention.
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People’s Force
Similarly, Manuel Crespo, political delegate for the People’s Force before the Central Electoral Board (JCE), He assured that they will not participate in said proposal, understanding that it only seeks to stop the political growth of the former president Leonel Fernandez.
He also said that the government’s excuse of promoting an independent Justice is just a farce since, if such an interest existed, a reform would not be necessary, but an increase in resources to the aforementioned body would be.
Crespo and Camilo They agreed in stating that the reform made to the constitution in 2010, considered the last substantive reform (the one in 2015 was for electoral issues) still needs to mature since many of the new laws have not even been complied with.
“We have a government that wants to be diverting attention with issues pulled by the fight so that we do not deal with or claim the campaign promises made by the President Luis Abinader,” Crespo said.
