The ruling PLD party ended the period of discussions of the proposals for the VIII Norge Botello Congress yesterday, Sunday 25 August, as reported in Diario Libre. Standing out were complaints over the loss of the chain of command, as well as the disconnection between the government, the party and the middle and base leadership of the organization.
“The loss of the chain of command, which has been one of the weaknesses of the opening of the party, has brought with it a deficient internal communication. The policy lines adopted by our leadership come in dribs and drabs to the rank and file, and a little distorted, because in their diffusion they are relying mostly on the mass media, which make the focus in accord with the position of their owner or editor,” is the way these complaints are expressed in the analysis of the communication issue.
In the discussions they criticized that the party circulars and resolutions “from bottom-up and vice versa,” do not flow with the necessary agility, which means that internal communications are more difficult and create disinformation.
In the self-criticism, the party said that together with the limitations on internal communications, there have been in the past and previous election campaigns, contradictions in the communication polities. Some party journalists in the PLD have expressed uneasiness, saying that they have not been taken into account and the jobs have been centralized by one sector. In the debates there has been criticism of the lack of lines of strategy for communications from the Political Committee, the absence of efficient forms of relating things between the communications organ and the PLD leadership and the lack or a specific budget targeting the work programs that “left only a team of people with willingness and determination, but with a series of problems that have impeded the full execution of the objective and reforms that were suggested.”