Absolute power for Fernandez
Former Attorney General and presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno says that the results of the 16 May congressional and municipal election render President Leonel Fernandez a governor with absolute powers. With the recent changes in the Constitution and the increase in his party's seats in Congress, Fernandez has control of the Executive Branch, and now has the other branches of government under his control.
"Finally the wolf has come, because Fernandez has the unconditional support of the board of his party whom he has allowed to amass immense fortunes doing business from the government," he comments in 7dias.com.do
Moreover, he makes the points that more than a million people are on official subsidy lists, and government jobs are mostly held by ruling party members, and add to that the off-payroll lists. He said that Fernandez is holding "by his big nose" the president of the PRD, whose poor performance in the electoral campaign forebodes internal party fratricide.
"President Fernandez has been stung by the bee of continuity. The intention is there, it is only a matter of creating or waiting for the occasion. One doesn't have to argue about the dangers that the strengthening Dr. Fernandez's personal absolute power campaign means for democracy and the Dominican nation," he said. He commented that part of the abstention and the annulled votes reflect the marked political sense of indignation and rejection of clientelism, violence and corruption and the absence of ideas and concrete proposals in the campaign. He said there was widespread rejection of the political practices of those who have governed us. "More than 55% of the population did not go to vote, or voted for none, or had their vote annulled. Add to that several of the independent candidates who marked the difference," he said.
Moreno advocates reinventing the exercise of politics in the country, to make it an honest, democratic activity at the service of the common good. He would like to fight "so much disorder, corruption, insecurity and social inequity".
Former Attorney General and presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno says that the results of the 16 May congressional and municipal election render President Leonel Fernandez a governor with absolute powers. With the recent changes in the Constitution and the increase in his party's seats in Congress, Fernandez has control of the Executive Branch, and now has the other branches of government under his control.
"Finally the wolf has come, because Fernandez has the unconditional support of the board of his party whom he has allowed to amass immense fortunes doing business from the government," he comments in 7dias.com.do
Moreover, he makes the points that more than a million people are on official subsidy lists, and government jobs are mostly held by ruling party members, and add to that the off-payroll lists. He said that Fernandez is holding "by his big nose" the president of the PRD, whose poor performance in the electoral campaign forebodes internal party fratricide.
"President Fernandez has been stung by the bee of continuity. The intention is there, it is only a matter of creating or waiting for the occasion. One doesn't have to argue about the dangers that the strengthening Dr. Fernandez's personal absolute power campaign means for democracy and the Dominican nation," he said. He commented that part of the abstention and the annulled votes reflect the marked political sense of indignation and rejection of clientelism, violence and corruption and the absence of ideas and concrete proposals in the campaign. He said there was widespread rejection of the political practices of those who have governed us. "More than 55% of the population did not go to vote, or voted for none, or had their vote annulled. Add to that several of the independent candidates who marked the difference," he said.
Moreno advocates reinventing the exercise of politics in the country, to make it an honest, democratic activity at the service of the common good. He would like to fight "so much disorder, corruption, insecurity and social inequity".
