The special commission of the Senate in charge of the modification of the laws 15-19, Organic of Electoral Regime; and 33-18, of Political Parties, Groups and Movements does not guarantee rendering a report before this July 26, when the present legislature closes.
The information is contained in the comment of the president of the commission, senator Ricardo de los Santos, who told elCaribe that, although progress is being made in the work of the initiatives and the purpose is to conclude before closing this legislature, the reality is that For the commissioners, agreeing on a single article could take “several days of work”, so they cannot predict when they will conclude with the study of the pieces.
Provincial senator Sánchez Ramírez for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) said that the commission has already agreed on 66 articles of the 82 contained in Law 33-18, and that they go through article 146 of Law 15-19, the which consists of 306 items.
De los Santos announced that the delegation works first with one piece and then the other. “We are leaving the points of dissent, some articles that have dissent, and we are waiting for the opinions of the parties to conclude the Political Parties Law and the Electoral Regime Law, we are already at more than 50%,” said the congressman.
Legislatures and laws in the Senate
The current legislature began on February 27 and the second will begin on August 16. It is worth mentioning that each ordinary legislature has 150 days from its beginning.
The Senate has been in charge of the projects to modify the Organic Law of the Electoral Regime and the Law of Political Parties, Groups and Movements since last April 5, when the Plenary Session of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), headed by its head , Román Jáquez Liranzo, delivered the initiatives to the president of the Senate, Eduardo Estrella. During the visit of the members of the electoral body, Estrella was in the company of the spokespersons of the three benches of the main political parties.
CD evaluates dismissing Electoral Code law
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco, revealed last week that, at the request of the JCE itself, they have been evaluating “dismissing” the Electoral Code bill that is being studied in that chamber, in order to reach consensus which is being worked on in the Senate. The Permanent Commission of JCE of the Lower House, was receptive.
Román Jáquez ponders the need for reform
Alfredo Pacheco’s statement is after the head of the JCE highlighted the urgency of a reform “that gives the electoral bodies the claws and teeth so that they can bite those parties that in their calendar have advanced” their proselytizing activities to the date established by the Party Law. The official clarified that the electoral body does not have mechanisms to sanction political parties by law.
