The president of Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Michael Vargas Maldonado, spoke out this Sunday against what he called “the indiscriminate purchase of leaders politicians of matches opponents” who, according to what he said, “executes the Government seeking to hide their weaknesses in the administration of the State”.
He stated that when the ruler Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) announces that a leader has passed to his organization, which “shows Dominican society as trophies in public acts”,
He assured that with this action what he is looking for is “to appear to be a support that the citizens deny him every day due to his evident governmental inefficiency and with the aim of distracting everyone from the aggravated evils that affect the nation.”
In a press release, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs said he understood that the Government should desist from the practice that he defined as “pernicious in promoting turncoats, since this contributes to undermining democracy, the party system and eroding institutions.”
“Vargas Maldonado’s approach coincides with the historical discourse of his party, which insists on reiterating its anti-transfuguism doctrinal vision,” he refers to in the document.
“Consequently, we criticize that the ruling party continues these practices of the old policy,” he said.
He said that for him PRD overcoming the turncoat is a challenge, because the practice violates the dignity of the leaders politicians
Vargas Maldonado insisted on describing as “despicable” the action of attracting, “with bad arts”, leaders politicians of the opposition.
This, with the aggravating circumstance that, at present, in particular, emphasis is placed on damaging the PRDI consider.
“As a party, we understand that the eradication of this corrupt practice, through the co-optation of leaders, represents one of the greatest challenges for democracy; even more so, when the system and the norm that should guarantee the overcoming of this type of ills are broken or broken”specified a press release from the organization.
“We recognize that there is a regulatory gap in the law to punish turncoat, which makes it easier for this to be practiced as an Olympic sport without consequences,” he added.
He also said that “it is necessary for the political leadership of the country to overcome these perverse practices to the partisan and democratic institutions.”
The PRD reiterated the rejection expressed by its president “to these maneuvers that governments seek to divide political organizations.”
“We also warn that the leaders politicians of opposition must be clear and very present that, if the party of government It has not been incapable of satisfying the commitments with its militancy, nor those contracted with adversaries conquered by 2020, much less will it be able to fulfill the new ones with those attracted in the current period, where reelectionist demagoguery prevails,” he pointed out.
