Former PLD deputy Minou Tavarez Mirabal formally launched her Opcion Democratica (OP) political movement at the Barcelo Santo Domingo (former Lina Hotel) yesterday, Sunday, 23 August 2015.
In her speech, the now independent legislator called for Dominicans to “counteract the perverse deals of the malign forces that are planning to continue in government and to define a definite transition for a new Dominican Republic based on true democratic principles”.
The deputy for the National District said the new political organization has been formed to overcome the old and repetitive attempts to do the same thing and close the path to the well-known figures of corruption.
Victor Castro, former president of the Herrera Industrial Association is vice president. Other leading party members are Josefina Almanzar, Wilfredo Ernesto Alemany, Manuel Fernandez Liranzo, Sergio German Medrano, Segismundo Lopez, Emelinda Padilla Fanneyt, Braulio Peralta, Mirla Rivera de Mesa, Digno Tavarez, Andres Fortunado, Veronica Gomez, Cesar Fernandez Rosell, Felipe Diaz, Sergia Galvan, Manuel Bonilla Dominici, Alfonso Casasnovas Giudicelli, Sonia Perozo Barinas, Jose Horacio Rodriguez Grullon, Samuel Bonilla and Victor Castro.
The party now needs to apply for formal recognition from the Central Electoral Board (JCE).
Minou Tavarez has served as a deputy in the National Congress since first elected on the PLD ticket in 2002 and served as president of the Foreign Affairs Committee. She resigned from the PLD in 2014 to continue as an independent legislator. Previously she was deputy vice minister at the Ministry of Foreign Relations under the first government of President Leonel Fernandez from 1996 to 2000.
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