Media reports are questioning why taxpayers have to pay for the business of politics. Perhaps the most extreme case this 2024 is that of the yield per taxpayer dollars to the performance of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) under former Minister of Foreign Relations and former Minister of Public Works, Miguel Vargas Maldonado.
The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) received RD$1 billion in funding for the electoral year (2024). The president and presidential candidate of that party, received 19,790 votes in votes, or 0.45%. The PRD only won one seat in the Chamber of Deputies, that of Jose Alberto Jimenez in Sanchez Ramirez who received the seat with 9,709 votes.
The party, as the electoral law works, was assigned a Parlacen deputy, Silvia Garcia Polanco and a National Deputy, Elias Wessin Chavez as a result of the vote of the 2024 election.
An incumbent PRD deputy, Hector Dario Feliz Feliz is under investigation in the judiciary for assisting a fleeing drug trafficker. Feliz was identified by the Public Ministry in 2021 for allegedly transporting a wanted drug trafficker in his vehicle. He is under investigation as part of Operation Falcon. As of August, his case would need to be heard by the regular jurisdiction, as he loses his privileged condition as a legislator.
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DR1 News
29 May 2024