The spokesmen for the blocs of senators from the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) and deputies from the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) today detracted from the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) to complain about the alleged purchase of mayors and other leaders of that organization.
Franklin Romero and Pedro Botello, respectively, agreed that in the PLD governments many leaders of other parties went over to that political organization.
Romero, representative of the PRM for the San Francisco de Macorís province, denied that this organization is buying opponents as the peledeistas allege, but acknowledged that it is an old practice in the country for political organizations to recruit leaders from other entities to strengthen themselves.
He explained that the entry of mayors and leaders of opposition parties to the ruling party is due to the excellent government management that President Luis Abinader is carrying out since he is delivering the resources to the municipalities, as established by law 176-07 .
“Definitely that this avalanche of peledeistas and others who are coming to the PRM is the result of the good management that Luis Abinader is doing, and that the mayors and directors who have seen the emphasis, the interest that the President has placed in their municipalities, that it is strengthening it by providing them with the money they need so that they can carry out the works,” he said. Rosemary.
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He added that “the General Budget of the Nation has a part that corresponds to the mayors and that has never been complied with, and it had been a practice of all the governments we have had to have the mayors kneel to the government on duty” .
For Romero, President Abinader has been the difference because he has empowered the municipalities with resources to carry out the works that they cannot do with the budget they receive.
“They have fallen in love with this program that the President has, because they are seeing their municipalities advance, with support without any kind of political banner,” said the pro-government legislator.
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The PRSC spokesman in the Lower House argued that the PLD does not have the moral quality to demand that the Central Electoral Board take action against the PRM for the alleged purchase of opposition mayors, because their administrations were characterized by this practice.
“I am surprised that today the PLD complains bleeding from its own wound, more than a hundred More than a hundred leaders of the first order were unworthily taken from the PRSC for personal canonries. They almost completely destroy us; but here we are like the phoenix,” said Botello, also acting president of the opposition group.
He added that “the PLD brought us to the ground trying to destroy us, getting our militancy and our leadership out of us.”
He cited Adriano Sánchez Roa, Florentino Carvajal Suero, Prim Pujols, Humberto Salazar, Anny Felipe, Arístides Fernández Suco, Modesto Guzmán, Alexandra Izquierda, César Dargán and Milton Ginebra among the reformist leaders that the PLD would have taken from him.
The PLD complaint
Yesterday the PLD announced that it is considering internationally denouncing an alleged purchase of opposition mayors by the Government and the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).
The national campaign coordinator of that organization, Francisco Javier García, said that it is a reprehensible action that has a negative impact on democracy and the country’s institutionality.
He pointed out that President Luis Abinader has remained silent before the summons to demonstrate the transparency that he claims to exhibit, ordering the Public Ministry to initiate an investigation into the complaint by the block of PLD deputies.
