{"id":102080,"date":"2017-07-27T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=102080"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:29:41","slug":"odebrecht-accused-legislators-get-to-keep-their-parliamentary-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/27\/odebrecht-accused-legislators-get-to-keep-their-parliamentary-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Odebrecht-accused legislators get to keep their parliamentary immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102117\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Tommy-Galan-and-Julio-Cesar-Valentin-Listin-Dario-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senators Tommy Gal\u00e1n and Julio C\u00e9sar Valent\u00edn \/ Listin Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Senate rejected removing parliamentary immunity to senators Julio C\u00e9sar Valent\u00edn (Santiago-PLD) and Tommy Alberto Gal\u00e1n (San Crist\u00f3bal-PLD) on 26 July 2017. Previously, the Chamber of Deputies had rejected removing parliamentary immunity to Alfredo Pacheco of the PRM. The three are accused by the Attorney General Office for having received bribes from the Brazilian company, Odebrecht for the approval of loans for the construction of public works in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The request for removal of parliamentary immunity had been made by the instruction judge of the case, Francisco Ortega. Parliamentary immunity establishes that the case against the legislators be heard by the Supreme Court of Justice. Likewise, the legislators cannot be sent to jail while the legislative sessions are underway.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2017\/07\/27\/475724\/senado-no-quitara-inmunidad-a-los-legisladores-julio-cesar-valentin-y-tommy-galan\" target=\"_blank\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opd.org.do\/index.php\/analisis-poder-legislativo\/1669-la-inmunidad-parlamentaria-en-latinoamerica-y-republica-dominicana\" target=\"_blank\">OPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>27 July 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate rejected removing parliamentary immunity to senators Julio C\u00e9sar Valent\u00edn (Santiago-PLD) and Tommy Alberto Gal\u00e1n (San Crist\u00f3bal-PLD) on 26 July 2017. Previously, the Chamber of Deputies had rejected removing parliamentary immunity to Alfredo Pacheco of the PRM. The three are accused by the Attorney General Office for having received bribes from the Brazilian company, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/27\/odebrecht-accused-legislators-get-to-keep-their-parliamentary-immunity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}