Wanted 25 days, got 15 and Deputies say this is the last extension, don't ask for more.
La resolución vuelve a conocerse este viernes en el Senado Bloque del PLD llegó a un acuerdo con los de la oposición
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Translation: 05/14/2020, 03:47 PM The deputies met at 3:00 in the afternoon even though they were called for 11:00 in the morning. After an agreement between the block of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the opposition parties, the Chamber of Deputies approved the extension of the state of emergency for 15 days from Monday, May 18, until June 1, to continue facing the COVID-19 pandemic. The spokesman of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Alfredo Pacheco, indicated that the opposition "in a gesture of flexibility" decided to approve 15 days, to allow space for a plan to be drawn up and for the political and social forces to be called to discuss the return to a new normality within COVID-19. Pacheco warned that the opposition will not approve a more state of emergency, because the PLD candidates are taking advantage of the pandemic to campaign politically and use state resources to seek position. "Don't bring us any more extensions because we don't approve more extensions," he said. Prior to the session, the opposition blocs proposed that they be approved only 10 more days of the state of emergency, alleging that the Government is campaigning on the issue of the pandemic. The session, scheduled for 11:00 in the morning, began at 3:00 in the afternoon after the spokespersons of the blocs met with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Radhamés Camacho. The resolution will be known again this Friday at 11:00 in the Senate, which had approved the 25 days requested by President Danilo Medina on Monday, May 12.