Longtime PLD ally, lawyer Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo has ended the 22-year political pact between the Fuerza Nacional Progresista and the ruling PLD. The president of the FNP said it could not continue being part of the Bloque Progresista after what it calls “the low blow and the lack of responsibility” a reference to the government’s decision to reinstate consecutive re-election in the Constitution. Castillo had advocated for a national referendum to be called to let the people decide on reinstating consecutive re-election in the Constitution.
Speaking on his TV program La Respuesta, Castillo said he was “mourning the loss of virginity of the Constitution and the political pact signed with the late founder of the PLD, Juan Bosch in 1993.”
He said that the party could take the case of the proposal to modify Article 124 of the Constitution on re-election to the Constitutional Court.
Castillo is a former national director of Ethics and Government Integrity and longtime advisor on drugs to the Presidency. He resigned as director of Ethics in February. Other relatives, including Minister of Energy and Mines Pelegrin Castillo, and Migration director Jose Ricardo Taveras also resigned at the time after falling out of favor of the Medina administration, compared to prevalence during the Leonel Fernandez administrations.
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