The Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana is leading an effort to motivate the authorities into investigating and stopping illegal occupation of private property throughout the country. The influential private agricultural business organization said that the illegal occupations are taking up the same pattern as has occurred prior to previous elections, which leads the JAD into thinking that they are organized by groups seeking political gains. The JAD called for drastic punishment for the violators of private property rights and the Constitution that protects the right to property.