The Iberoamericana University (UNIBE) and the Foundation for Equality, have announced that lawyers, political scientists and executives from different parties who have expressed support for or opposition to the constitutionality of open primaries, will be discussing the issue in the International Seminar on Political Participation and the Parties Bill.
The academic event, will take place at UNIBE on Friday, 1 December from 8:30am to 6pm, and will open with a speech from electoral expert Carlos Fara. Also taking part will be the former judge of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Eddy Olivares, Wilfredo Lozano, Ricardo Pérez Fernández and José Alejandro Ayuso. In addition the director of the Master’s Program in Constitutional Law at UNIBE, Cristóbal Rodríguez, will be speaking along with lawyers Namphi Rodríguez, Eduardo Jorge Prats, Jaime Rodríguez and Julio Cury.
In the afternoon the first session will be facilitated by Spanish Professor in Constitutional Law, Emilio Pajares Montolío, and the closing event will be facilitated by ex-judge of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), José Manuel Hernández Peguero.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Dominican Republic has already ruled against the constitutionality of the open primaries in 2005. The Political Committee of the ruling PLD party, nevertheless, has brought back the issue and sought expert opinions in order to re-introduce it in Dominican legislation in time for the 2020 general elections.
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Diario Libre0
30 November 2017
