National District Deputy, Minou Tavarez Mirabal has clarified that she did not resign from the ruling PLD to run for President for any other party or as an independent candidate.
She said that she had explained her reasons for resigning in a letter to Leonel Fernandez quoting a poem by Mario Benedetti, “You have to stop crying over lies and sing the truth”.
She confirmed that her resignation had nothing to do with her cousin Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal, who is a member of the PLD Political Committee, saying that he had his own life to lead.
PLD General Secretary and Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez said that the organization regretted her decision to leave the Party and the Central Committee and said he respected her decision that he described as personal.
Meanwhile, an editorial in Diario Libre says that Minou’s resignation is one of the first episodes in “the great political party crisis that lies ahead.” The editorial points out: “These parties, that still have dreams, have become true government corporations that need to tax citizens every day more to keep their machinery oiled but that taxation capacity is coming to its limit.” The editorialist concludes that there is hope that Minou’s trumpet may rally the troops.
Minou Tavarez told Diario Libre that the PLD she joined 20 years ago has abandoned its original principles, and she does not feel she has any space there and that it is not worth it.
She said corruption and impunity has filled her cup, and the last straw was the proposed change to the Penal Procedures Code. Minou Tavarez was outspoken against the change aimed at preventing laypersons from suing government officials for corruption in office.
She commented she seeks to be part of a great political-social coalition for democracy and hopes many others will be willing.
www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2014/5/22/322925/Minou-dice-que-no-renuncio-al-PLD-para-aspirar-a-la-presidencia
www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2014/5/22/322953/Pared-Perez-dice-PLD-lamenta-renuncia-Minou-aunque-respeta-decision
www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2014/05/23/i622071_minou-tengo-espacio-pld-creo-que-vale-pena.html