The lawyer and former senator for the Santiago province, Julio César Valentín, will present a new political project to Dominican society this Tuesday, after having resigned 20 days ago as a member of the Liberation Party (PLD) to which he belonged for almost four decades and the who was part of its Political Committee.
The information was offered today by a close associate of the former legislator, José de la Cruz, who announced that the act will take place at 10:00 in the morning, at the Aloha Sol hotel, in the urban area of this city.
When participating in the BuenosDíasRD program, on Luna TV, Channel 53, De la Cruz announced that the new political project that Julio César Valentín will lead will be progressive and with social justice, called to value women and young people so that they have opportunities in the Dominican society.
He said that for the moment Valentin has the support of more than 9 mayors, more than 20 members of the PLD Central Committee and a political structure in 19 provinces of the country.
After submitting his resignation from the PLD, Valentín argued that his progressive convictions conflict with political-ideological pronouncements, practices and criteria that he considers to be disassociated from the ideological tradition of the party founded by Professor Juan Bosch.
“To stay would be to remain in a space of which we would not feel part of, of which we are not convinced. Remaining would be like being in a body without a soul, ”he expressed at the time in an extensive letter addressed to the president of the PLD, Danilo Medina Sánchez.
Together with Valentín, several senior leaders and mayors of the province of Santiago also presented their resignation, such as the municipalities of Tamboril, Anyolino Germosén; Janico, Hilario Fernandez; Hondo Valle, Nildo Cesar.
Also the municipal directors of Palmar Arriba, Miguel Junior Toribio; Hato del Yaque, Fermín Noesí, and El Caminito -Jánico, Remy Peralta, as well as the members of the Central Committee, José de la Cruz and Fernando Bonilla, among others. Recently, the deputy from Pelede, Benedicto Hernández, also announced his resignation from that organization to join the team of the former senator from Santiago.
Valentine’s resignation
It was released on November 9. The former senator for the Santiago province and member of the Political Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) Julius Caesar Valentine presented his resignation from that organization, arguing that his progressive convictions conflict with statements, practices and political-ideological criteria that he considers disassociated from the ideological tradition of the party founded by Professor Juan Bosch.
“To stay would be to remain in a space of which we would not feel part of, of which we are not convinced. Remaining would be like being in a body without a soul”, he expressed in an extensive letter addressed to the president of the PLD, Danilo Medina Sanchez.
Valentín said in his letter that he feels more still with his disassociation from the party that with the participation in internal debates in which their positions and convictions will be in disagreement with the political strategy, the rhetoric and the electoral practice that the purple party will follow, which they believe is distant from their ideological identity.
At that time, he clarified that he is moving away from the PLD, but not from the political activityand affirmed that it will continue to explore other ways that allow them to contribute to the country achieving its sustainable development objectives with structural reforms that make the prevailing economic model more productive, competitive, inclusive and fair for all.
PLD internal consultation
It is recalled that Julio César Valentín supported ex-presidential candidate Francisco Domínguez Brito in the last internal consultation of the purple party, who came second, behind the mayor of Santiago Abel Martínez.
Some leaders of the Central Committee of the PLD in Santiago have felt harassed by the current presidential candidate Abel Martínez, to the point that after his victory he has supposedly not called them.
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