The coordinator of Participación Ciudadana civic group criticized the surliness (tigueraje) present in Congress and the negative attitude that permeates the Chamber of Deputies legislators. Miriam Diaz Santana said the attitude, evidenced by a video that is circulating on social media of the Tuesday, 16 October 2018, session is shameful. She rebuked the behavior of two deputies whose volleyball of shouts and insults was seen after a YouTube video was uploaded.
Santana said: “What we have is lowliness in the National Congress, where any citizen who has economic or political power aspires to a deputy, invests a large amount of money and is elected legislator, and that is why you see that type of behavior in full session of the deputies due to the low academic status of many of them, as evidenced in the screaming of insults,” said Diaz Santana.
This Tuesday, the deputies Pedro Botello, of La Romana, and Manuel Diaz, of Villa Altagracia (San Cristóbal), held a shouting match of insults in the day’s session. Efforts by Deputies president, Radhamés Camacho, to calm the two were to no avail.
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El Nacional
22 October 2018
