Yesterday, Wednesday 25 February 2015, 120 members of the PLD Central Committee requested a meeting of the Committee to debate the proposal for modifying the Constitution of the Republic to allow for President Danilo Medina’s re-election. The PLD members, headed by Santo Domingo Water and Sewer Corporation (CAASD) director Alejandro Montas, asked the Political Committee to agree to its member Ramon Ventura Camejo’s proposal to approve consecutive reelection following the model established in the United States Constitution. “This proposal is aimed at getting the party to decide to take the steps that are institutionally needed for modifying the Constitution in order to establish a model based on the US, where the rules allow a President to be elected for two consecutive terms and then never again,” they stated.
The statement was read out at a press conference attended by the controller general of the Republic, Rafael Germosen, director general of passports Iris Guaba, Minister of Youth Jorge Minaya, Hato Mayor Senator Ruben Dario Cruz, Reformed Companies Assets Fund (Fonper) director Fernando Rosa and National District City Council president Winnie Terrero, as well as several deputies and dozens of party sub-committee chairpersons. They said that the Constitution establishes democratic mechanisms for its modification without altering the country’s institutionalism, reiterating that President Medina has a 90% approval rating with 70% of voters in favor of his reelection.