Santo Domingo.-The Political Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) met for the first time after its renewal, making important decisions ranging from reestablishing contributions, becoming a low-cost party to creating a response commission and establishing the next call of the Central Committee.
The information was offered by the secretary general of the PLDJohnny Pujols, after finishing the meeting in the traditional report for the press offered after 12:00 noon after approximately two hours of the meeting.
“We also made the decision to take the first steps to become a low-cost party, a transparent and self-financing party and in that sense, we are going to resume the membership fee, starting with all the registration of the Political Committee,” he revealed. Pujols.
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“We are all going to contribute, according to a mandate from Congress and in that sense, starting this month we began to take steps in that direction,” he explained.
As a sign of transparency, they gave the media representatives a copy of the party’s financial report delivered to the Central Electoral Board (JCE) -+corresponding to this year’s resources until the month of June, remembering that the resources to the matches in election years are delivered at the beginning of the year.
He declared that the first decision made by the high body was to begin a series of tours throughout the country, led by the president of the PLD, the former president of the Republic, Danilo Medina and the general secretary himself to evaluate the situation of the party at the municipal level. .
The PLD spokesman explained that the tours will begin this Wednesday in San Cristóbal, they will continue next Saturday in San Pedro de Macorís and on Thursday of the other week in Monseñor Nouel.
He announced that in January these routes will be resumed and will be carried out in principle in the head municipalities of the provinces, but that they will cover the municipalities of each province in another stage.
Pujols said that the activities of the Celebrations and Commemorations Commission for the celebration of the 51 years of the PLD on December 15 were also approved.
About the Christmas Bonus
Pujols reported that the PLD subscribes to what was expressed about the so-called Christmas bonus of the former vice president Margarita Cedeño and the last vice presidential candidate, Zoraima Cuello, who criticized that the government stopped using the poverty statistics of the Single System of Beneficiaries (Siuben) to deliver said bonus.
“We are deeply concerned about the disorder that has occurred in the delivery of the bonus, remembering previous scandals in the application of social programs,” he said.
He said that the PLD expresses solidarity with the Dominican men and women who have been neglected by the government’s indifference about the problems that affect them.
“It is scandalous that people who do not need these bonuses are on the list of those who can access said funds, in itself it is a dangerous symptom of the design of said program,” he concluded.
