Santo Domingo.- Violating the Constitution of the Republic, the protected lands of the Jaragua National Park in Pedernales, which sustain the ecosystem of the area, will be affected in the Pro-Pedernales Trust Agreement, approved by the National Congress last April , and where more than three billion pesos and almost 362 million square meters were delivered as an initial contribution.
The warning was formulated by the Justice and Transparency Foundation (FJT), which also requested the urgent correction of the contract, since it violates the Magna Carta, attributing extraordinary functions to the General Directorate of Public-Private Partnerships (DGAPP).
The president of the entity, Trajano Potentini, expressed that “the figure of the developer, the secured creditor and the adhering trustor, in addition to the so-called linked trusts of a strictly private nature, which could be detached from the base trust, the indebtedness capacity and purchase and sales, fiduciary secrecy, its own purchasing and contracting system».
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He denounced that this process was carried out outside the transparency laws, renewable for 20 years and irrevocable, the capacity at will or of the administrative bodies, with or without cause, to eliminate the banreservas trustee.
The civic institution recalled that, in a sustained process of environmental protection, former President Joaquín Balaguer expropriated several pieces of land for public use, plus other State properties to gradually form what would be the system of protected areas in the Dominican Republic. ,
Endorsed by the government of Hipólito Mejía, through the approval of the sectoral law of protected areas, number 202-04 of July 30, 2004.
