1998News

PRD votes to stay in Congress but not pass PLD bills

The Political Committee of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, the leading opposition party, chose to desist from recommending its senators to abandon Congressional sessions but reiterated the party’s "presidium" or ruling body’s decision to not approve any bills presented by the Fern?ndez administration. The PRD wants the ruling party, the Partido de la Liberaci?n Dominicana (PLD) to not support PRSC efforts at winning the secretary general post of the Dominican Municipal League, the organization that rules city halls in the DR. The PRD also seeks a return to normal of monthly payments made to the Junta Central Electoral, the body that organizes presidential, congressional and municipal elections. The PLD and the PRSC have disputed the judges elected unilaterally by the PRD majority in the Senate on grounds that some of the elected judges, including the president of the court, are renown PRD activists.