The Green March political movement calls for removing “political surliness” (tigueraje politico) from the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM). In particular, the movement names the Attorney General. The Green March leaders warn the public that a well-known politician may be one of the judges the CNM is about to replace in the Constitutional Court or Supreme Court of Justice to ensure impunity for corrupt acts by government officers.
In a press release, the Green March leaders urge true political independence be exercised within the Attorney General Office and the Superior Council of the Public Ministry, to relieve it from the present dependence on the Presidency of the Republic. Marcha Verde also calls for creating a Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Agency, with its head to be named directly by the National Council of the Magristracy for a term of six years.
Marcha Verde criticized the accommodating of the judicial accountability actions to political patronage. “The center of political control of the Justice is now within Dominican Liberation Party that controls the National Council of Magistrates that has been designed in the image and likeness of political crime,” the movement said. In this regard, the entity proposed a reconfiguration of the CNM to end the “mechanical control” of the justice system at the hands of President of the Republic.
“Guaranteeing the independence of the Justice is an indispensable task so that those who are corrupt are sent to jail and the country recovers the money that these corrupt officials have stolen from us,” say the Green March leaders.
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Marcha Verde
22 October 2018
