The Reformista Party (PRSC) block in the Chamber of Deputies submitted yesterday a bill to rename the Las Americas Highway after Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, the recently-deceased leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), former presidential candidate and ex-mayor of Santo Domingo. The bill was submitted by Deputies Máximo Castro Silverio and Ramón Rogelio Genao Durán, who say it has the backing of ex-President and current PRSC leader Dr. Joquín Balaguer. The Deputies promoted the bill as a possible solution to the current impasse between the PRD-led Congress and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD)-run Executive over the renaming of Las Americas Airport as Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez Airport. Last Friday President Fernández rejected a bill passed by Congress to rename the airport. In protest the PRD this week walked out of the political dialogue between parties mediated by the Catholic Church.
