The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Roberto Rosario has blamed the ruling PLD party for the delays in the approval of the Law of Political Parties. The law seeks to regulate the operation of political parties. The bill has been in Congress for several years. Prior to reaching power politicians have said they will lobby for Congress to pass it, but once in office they have looked the other way.
Rosario, himself regarded as the PLD party man among the JCE judges and who had the strong support of former President Leonel Fernandez for the position as president of the organization, blamed the party on the grounds that it holds the majority in Congress and has done nothing to the effect of moving the bill.
Rosario insisted that “if that law is not approved it will be their responsibility”. He urged President Danilo Medina to use his leadership and fulfill his promise. “The government party is the main responsible for passing or not of the Bill of Political Parties, he said as reported in the press.
Rosario said that last year Medina, PLD party president Leonel Fernandez and the presidents of the PRSC and the PRD, Carlos Morales Troncoso and Miguel Vargas Maldonado, all pledged to take actions to pass the law in the first quarter of this year. Rosario said that it is time “that we move from words to action and pass the political party bill.”
“It would appear that we are playing to reciprocally fool ourselves and leave the DR without a health political party system,” he said. “It has always been that whoever is out wants it approved, but whoever is in does not want it approved,” he said. He said that the country has parties that are strong but not “healthy.”
Rosario was speaking at the inaugural ceremony for an international workshop, “Primary elections in Latin America and the Dominican Republic: experience, balance and prospects.”
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