Dolores Vicioso – Page 8147

Leonel Fernandez, presidential candidate of the PLD, won favor with businessmen last week, when he advocated the abolition of the consular invoice, or factura consular. The illegal government levy on imports favors those assigned to consulates abroad by way of personal enrichment, for past political support, to use the words of a former under minister …

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The political parties have until 16 February to formally announce political alliances. So far, the party with the most is the PRD and its Acuerdo de Santo Domingo coalition. It brings together the following minority parties: Partido de la Unidad Democrática (UD,), Partido Nacional de Veteranos y Civiles (PNFC), Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata (PQD), Partido Democrático …

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In a commentary last week in the newspaper Hoy, Jesus de la Rosa, a staunch PRD man who was also in charge of the last census, criticized the positions of Jacinto Peynado and Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who have both claimed that a large number of Haitians have been given voting cards to …

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The governor of the Patronato del Faro a Colón, a long time PRSC party leader, has instructed those resident in the area near the monument to Columbus not to allow the placing of political propaganda on the walls, plazas or in the parking areas surrounding the Faro. Morales Troncoso has also been very vocal about …

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The secretary general of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, Licenciado, Hatuey de Camps, has suggested that the JCE contract a foreign company to audit the padron electoral., or voters list. He said that in Mexico this was undertaken by a Canadian company with satisfactory results. The PRSC has protested against some 75,000 alleged irregularities, principally involving …

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