The Listin Diario’s political commentator Orlando Gil writes today that, while the law obliges the JCE to organize the political parties’ primaries this year, it will “not help their institutionalism in any way, and will only serve to change the scenario of their internal fights.” He continues: “If they do not respect the decisions of their party members now, what will ensure their acceptance of the verdict of the electoral college?” Gil says experience has shown that they will not.
“We must start getting the idea across that this country cannot only work for politics and the parties. Among those seen as enemies to the stability and progress of this nation, we must include this plague of reformers who are always with their projects under their arm looking for unwary people. No country can move ahead in the hands of those fools, and that is what the advocates of changes like this are,” he writes, stressing that this change provides no solution.
Gil criticizes the fact that while the nation had to foot the bill to finance the political parties, now it has to fund the primaries as well, and thus converting politics into a great business comprised of absolute gains and zero investment. The commentator says that it would be in the best interest of the country if the political reformers took a recess because their initiatives are less and less practical every day.