The three main political parties and the Central Electoral Board (JCE) are renewing efforts aimed at securing approval for the legislative bill on Political Parties, with mediation by former rector of the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado. The senior clergyman stressed that they were working towards the approval of a Law of Parties that benefits all the parties, not just one in particular. The PLD, PRD and PRSC party leaderships met for over an hour with JCE president Roberto Rosario and Monsignor Nunez Collado yesterday, Wednesday 15 February 2015. Nunez Collado said that they were trying to enforce the agreement signed by the presidential candidates in March 2012, in which they committed to pushing for the Law of Parties to be approved. “The three parties have met in a spirit of harmony and the conviction that this legislative bill for the Law currently in Congress should not be for one particular party, but that it should be the result of consensus between the parties represented in Congress,” he stated.
Participants at the meeting included PRD president Miguel Vargas, PRD legal director Salim Ibarra and the director of the Institutionalism and Justice Foundation, Eduardo Jorge Prats. Deputy Victor Gomez Casanova, a member of the legislative commission that studied the legislative proposal also attended. The PLD was represented by its General Secretary, Reinaldo Pared Perez and former Vice President Rafael Alburquerque. The PRSC was represented by its president, Federico Antun Batlle, who is also the party’s presidential candidate, and the political delegate at the JCE, Tacito Perdomo.