“what's required, and what's the process?"
During the Mej?a administration, the Constitution was amended to permit an incumbent president to seek a second successive term. On 13 July 2002, the National Congress enacted a law amending the Constitution to allow an incumbent President to run for a second consecutive term of office. Under the terms of an accord signed in August 1994 by the major political parties to end the political crisis that had followed the disputed presidential election of that year, re-election of an incumbent President to a second term had been prohibited. This prompted three other PRD presidential hopefuls, Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Rafael Suberv? Bonilla and Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero to cry foul. Faced with an uproar, PRD lawmakers than drafted a bill that would allow up to five candidates from the same party to run with the winner reaping the votes of his defeated party brethren. Under Dominican law, political parties now can put forth only one candidate.
Mirador you’re trying to start controversy ;
In reality
Article 55 15 reads "Tomar las medidas necesarias para proveer a la leg?tima defensa de la Naci?n en caso de ataque armado actual o inminente de parte de naci?n extranjera, debiendo informar al Congreso sobre las disposiciones as? adoptadas."
“about re-writing/revising the DR Constitution, just what would be your educated synopsis as to what and how it should/could be changed to the betterment of Government, Hillbilly?”
If I may submit my analysis of what needs to be changed in the DR constitution. I too think article 55 needs to be changed in that it presently gives the president control of both the military and police. I think this is what Hillbilly was refering to but I don’t want to speak for him. In all democracies the president is the commander in chief of the military but never has control over the police also. With total control over all protective elements within a country there is nothing to deter a scruplous leader from taking complete control of his country.
Article 55 reads “El Presidente de la Rep?blica es el jefe de la administraci?n p?blica y el jefe supremo de todas las fuerzas armadas de la Rep?blica y de los cuerpos policiales.”
http://www.glin.gov/view.do?documentID=45720&summaryLang=en&fromSearch=true
http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/DomRep/domrep02.html
Rick