The ruling PLD political party announced a meeting has been called for the Political Committee of the PLD for Monday, 6 February 2017. The Political Committee is the highest-ranking body within the ruling political party. The meeting will take place at the Presidential Office of the PLD located in Zona Universitaria as of 7pm.
Senator Reinaldo Pared Pérez, secretary general of the PLD, said the meeting is an ordinary session of the committee. He said that recently these meetings have served as forums to reconcile differences between the president of the political party, former President Leonel Fernández, and President Danilo Medina.
Pared Pérez says that the Political Committee has pending business that includes hearing the reports from commissions that presented eight projects for rulings to apply the resolutions derived from the 8th Ordinary Congress Commander Norge Botello of the PLD and setting a date for the meeting of the Central Committee of the party when the commission’s reports will be formally presented to the body.
The meeting is occurring as the pressure mounts for transparency on who in administrations, both past and present may have benefitted from bribes accepted to have been paid by the Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company.
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