First Circuit Judge F?lix Brito Mata yesterday gave both sides in the Dominican Municipal League (LMD) case two working days to document their case as to why the municipal assembly held January 26 in San Pedro de Macor?s (SPM) was legal or illegal. A hearing scheduled for next Thursday, February 18th, will be based on this documentation. The SPM assembly was convened by Interior and Police Minister Ram?n Andr?s Blanco Fern?ndez, in the role of president ex officio of the League, and it elected Senator Amable Aristy Castro [Reform Party (PRSC) – Altagracia] as the new LMD Secretary-General (SG) after changing a League rule about SG candidates needing a college degree (Aristy Castro has none). The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) held its own municipal assembly in Santo Domingo on the same day and "re-elected" Julio Mar??ez Rosario (PRD). It then challenged in court the legality of the SPM assembly and Aristy Castro’s election.
