The Dominican Alliance against Corruption (ADOCCO) says that the government has been negligent in excluding hundreds of institutions from the proposed budget for 2015.
The affected institutions include the Foundation for Justice and Transparency, FJT, the Dominican Alliance of the Defense of Consumers and Users, ASODECU, the Youth Drug Use Prevention Group, CIJUPD and ADOCCO. They say that they find it suspicious that the institutions that fight against corruption and that are opposing the imposition of the tax on Internet purchases under US$200 happen to be the ones that have been excluded.
ADOCCO lamented the fact that it appeared that President Medina’s government had violated the law in terms of the percentage assigned to the Judiciary, as well as the amount which should be paid to the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), as pointed out by the president of the Judicial Branch, Mariano German Mejia.
German stated that the RD$5,222 million assigned to the judiciary for 2015 would not enable them to provide a quality judicial service and that they would need at least double that amount.
As far as the UASD is concerned, Rector Ivan Grullon has said that if they did not have a budget increase for 2015 they would find it difficult to manage.
ADOCCO tilda al Gobierno de “indolente” por excluir ONGs del Presupuesto