Even though the elections municipal were 10 months ago and the presidential and congressional elections were seven, the signs and posters in poles of the power lines of streets and avenues of the Greater Santo Domingo.
Nailed, tied or glued to poles of the power lines and fences anchored in public spaces and private buildings, the signs remain intact, mainly in secondary and tertiary streets of the National District and the province of Santo Domingo.
Santo Domingo West It is the municipality that presents the greatest daubing and visual pollution of political propaganda of the main matches who participated in the last two electoral processes.
In neighborhoods like Buenos AiresEnsanche Altagracia, El Café and others abound. signsthe same on a street like Las Palmas, Avenida 27 de Febrero extension. Even in front of the Mayor’s office there are signs propaganda.
In Santo Domingo North there are very few signs on avenues such as Charles de Gaulle and Hermanas Mirabal, but inside the neighborhoods little has been done to remove the signs. Posters are kept candidates to president, deputies, senators and councilors of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), the People’s Force and others.
In Santo Domingo East There are also plenty of signs politicians in Los Trinitarios, Cancino, Mendoza, Villa Faro, Los Mina, Katanga, Vietnam, Invivienda, La Toronja, El Tamarindo, Villa Liberación, El Almirante, among others.
He National District is no exception in sectors such as Gualey and the Espaillat expansion, almost all of the propaganda remains placed in the polesLikewise, in Villas Agrícolas, Capotillo, 27 de Febrero neighborhood, La Ciénaga, San Carlos, Villa Juana, Villa Consuelo and other areas.
The Law 2023 of the Electoral Regime establishes in its article 181: “The matchesgroups or movements politicians and their candidates will be responsible for the removal of the propaganda electoral, for these purposes it will be coordinated with the matchesgroups or movements politicians and the corresponding town councils, the organization of cleaning days”.
In paragraph II of the aforementioned article the legislation indicates: “The Central Electoral Board may retain an amount of the contributions to the matchesgroups or movements politiciansas a guarantee that they will effectively carry out the withdrawal of the propaganda. Paragraph II.- In the event that the matchesgroups or movements politicians do not make effective the withdrawal of the propagandathe Central Electoral Board will cover the costs of its withdrawal with the funds retained from the corresponding political party.”
