In his column today, Tuesday 1 September 2015, Diario Libre editorialist Adriano Miguel Tejada writes about the loose morals that govern the distribution of political gains in the DR. “Political alliances in our country are now distorted,” he says. “Everywhere else alliances are sought to create a strong government to push forward a government program. In our country they are but a front so that the votes of small political parties are not counted, or a way of getting jobs in government. Obviously, both reasons are morally unacceptable.”
Tejada writes that the government now wants a broad alliance to achieve a record vote, with the intention of ignoring the particular nature of this election where the problem lies not with the higher-level candidacies, but with the minor ones, the only ones where local candidacies can survive. The other reason for the broad alliance is to give the impression of a government of national unity, which would only really occur if the political agreement had been the result of a government plan that was openly discussed and with genuine input from all the partners in the alliance.
He says that what we now have, however, is a dominant partner, the ruling PLD, which will only share crumbs with the allied parties. He says this cannot be any other way because of the totalitarian style of the PLD, which from the heights of Mount Olympus sees all others as very small and thus only offers them crumbs.
“As is evident, the morals that govern this distribution are totally spurious and for that reason it is going to cost us a lot in all ways,” he concludes.
http://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/am/moral-del-reparto-BN1096289