The president of the Permanent Commission of the Interior and Police of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Sánchez, affirmed today that it would be difficult for the Government to allow legislators to question the Director General of the Police, Major General Eduardo Alberto Then, so that he is accountable for the murders of several young people in police barracks.
“If they didn’t let him go to a meeting with the commission, much less are they going to let the deputies of the Modern Revolutionary Party vote to question him,” the legislator considered.
He then pointed out that “the problem is that we are in a minority, just five from the PLD, one from the People’s Force and another from the Renovating Civic Party, and since they are the majority, despite the fact that some have expressed their discontent with the actions police and for all situations, you know that the lines are lines.
Sánchez, who is a deputy for the Dominican Liberation Party, considered that the safest thing, although they do not state it publicly, is that they have a line that they do not support a report favorable to the interpellation of the director of the National Police.
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He reported that they will meet this Monday to try to achieve a vote on General Then’s interpellation proposal.
And if the quorum is met, he will submit the proposal, he assured. He said that the decision of the commission that he chairs is fundamental because normally the plenary session of the deputies endorses the decision adopted by the commissions.
“When they are interpellation resolutions that you know force government officials, it is very difficult for the PRM bench to violate the guidelines of their party, but mostly when a favorable report is given in a commission, the plenary session accepts it,” Sánchez explained. .
Last week the delegation made up of 15 deputies, eight of whom are from the PRM, met for the same purposes, however the meeting had to be suspended “due to lack of quorum” and the initiative left on the table.
On that occasion, three PRM legislators left the premises so that knowledge of the piece could not be known and thus avoid an eventual vote on said interpellation proposal.
To approve a favorable report of the resolution, the support of 8 is required, which is a majority of the 15 members of the commission.
The Commission
The three deputies who withdrew from the commission meeting were the Perremeists Ramón Bueno, Néstor Marmolejos and Otoniel Tejada. Yenry Manuel Acosta Ovalle, Domingo Eusebio de León Mascaro and José Rafael Hernández Portes attended for the PLD. For FP, Rubén Maldonado and for PCR, Miguel de los Santos.
