SANTO DOMINGO.– The Deputy Tobias Crespo of the People’s Force, today accused the central government of setting up a smear campaign against him, assuring that it was supported by employees of the Chamber of Deputies.
Visibly upset, the legislator showed his passport before the chamber as a way of proving he had a United States visa, thus denying the accusations he attributes to a person named Aquiles Jiménez.
According to Crespo, Jiménez mounted a smear campaign against him, stating that his travel document had been withheld and that he was linked to a legislator imprisoned in the United States.
“That slanderer said that the Embassy had suspended the visa, look at it here for ten years, I urge the PRM deputies to present the visa,” he said, raising his hand.
He accused the Administrative Ministry of the Presidency, the Institute of Transit and Land Transportation and the Chamber of Deputies by stating that their employees were the ones who made him a trend, according to a data map he presented.
He indicated that he had recently participated in a cocktail party with the United States Embassy and that the ones he had not seen were the legislators of the ruling Modern Revolutionary party.
It was corrected by the spokesman for that group, Julito Fulcar and when corroborating he stated: “yes, I saw Julito. The one I didn’t see was your brother.”
At the end of the shift, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco, asserted that although it was not frequent to answer the previous shifts, he would make an exception.
He placed the matter in the hands of the Chamber’s technology commission, chaired by the representative of the Dominican Liberation Party, and assured that Crespo had been seeking a confrontation with him for some time.
«You are not one of my worst adversaries. It is not, it has not been and it will not be, so do not be anointed », he later said that if the investigations pointed to him as responsible, he would resign as president of the Chamber.
