Roman Catholic Church Archbishop of Santo Domingo Francisco Ozoria went public with his concern about the lack of independence amongst the branches of government. He warned the country is headed to a dictatorship if people don’t wake up and change. “We have a structure in government that is not respecting that the branches of government be independent, and they are not,” he stated.
“It is clear that there is no independence in the powers of the state, then we fall into something as strong as into a dictatorship; if we do not wake up, if we do not change, we go there,” he said.
He made the comments in an interview with Huchi Lora and Amelia Deschamps for the El Día morning TV news analysis show on Telesistema, Channel 11.
During the Palm Sunday sermon, Archbishop Ozoria and Santiago archbishop Freddy Bretón Martínez had called for the Dominican population to reflect during Easter on the ambitions of power in government, femicides and citizen safety.
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16 April 2019