After PRM opposition legislator Faride Raful presented controller general documentation regarding contract work allotted and paid to Joao Santana and his wife Monica Moura in year 2016, even when the later were in jail in Brazil sentenced in the Lavajato-Odebrecht corruption case, the PLD-majority Chamber of Deputies denied her request for Congress to investigate. Instead, the young congresswoman endured numerous insults from her colleagues.
But Vice President Margarita Cedeño on Friday, tweeted her support to Raful’s request for a special commission to investigate the payments made to companies tied to Santana and his wife. In her tweet, Cedeño calls for respect for Raful and said that government officials must be held accountable. In her tweet, she stated: Faride Raful deserves all the respect in this debate that in the end enriches our democracy and the transparency that we have sowed in the governments of the PLD. Accountability is part of our responsibilities. Good for you, Faride Raful.
Raful responded with a tweet thanking the Vice President for expressing her respect of her rights as a citizen and congresswoman. “Hopefully, all your colleagues will assume the institutional role that corresponds to them, in favor of our democracy. My greetings,” she wrote.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, in his explanation on why the payments should not be investigated, had stated: “… history will take care to prove the falsity of all these accusations… “I adhere total and absolutely to the defense of the government and the Dominican Liberation Party.”
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Diario Libre
23 July 2018
