{"id":137677,"date":"2020-03-12T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137677"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:03:34","slug":"consensus-for-selection-of-electoral-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/consensus-for-selection-of-electoral-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Consensus for selection of electoral prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"291\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Johnattan-Bar\u00f3-y-Gisela-Cueto-Listin-Diario.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Johnattan-Bar\u00f3-y-Gisela-Cueto-Listin-Diario.png 291w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Johnattan-Bar\u00f3-y-Gisela-Cueto-Listin-Diario-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) have given the green light to the choosing of either 41-year old Jonathan Bar\u00f3 or 72-year old Gisela Cueto for electoral prosecutor. The prosecutor would be named by the Public Ministry Council in time for the municipal election this Sunday, 15 March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement between the two leading political parties was reached during the five-day political dialogue sponsored by the Social and Economic Council (CES) talks at the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra. There is a widespread opposition to the Attorney General unilaterally naming the electoral prosecutor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan Bar\u00f3 Guti\u00e9rrez is a Court of Appeals prosecutor, head of the San Crist\u00f3bal Regional Attorney&#8217;s Office. He has been with the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for 13 years and is a career prosecutor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gisela Altagracia Cueto Gonz\u00e1lez, is also an assistant prosecutor. She is the director of Extraditions and International Affairs of the Attorney General Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal of the two eligible prosecutors is one of several measures the CES commission presented to the plenary of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) on Wednesday, 11 March 2020. The CES met for five days in which mainly the two leading political parties focused on issues they wanted to be resolved regarding the municipal and general elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/03\/11\/ces-propone-a-jonathan-baro-y-a-gisela-cueto-para-procurador-electoral\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/ojd.org.do\/copia25\/index.php\/2013-07-09-17-38-49\/78-sistema-judicial-dominicano\/363-licda-gisela-altagracia-cueto-gonzalez\">OJD<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/03\/11\/607863\/un-procurador-de-corte-de-apelacion-y-una-procuradora-para-asuntos-internacionales-los-candidatos-a-fiscal-electoral\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/jce.gob.do\/Noticias\/pleno-jce-sostiene-reunion-con-integrantes-comision-acompanamiento-designada-en-dialogo-nacional-del-ces\">JCE<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/fiscal-electoral-podria-ser-escogido-este-jueves-segun-ces\/\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) have given the green light to the choosing of either 41-year old Jonathan Bar\u00f3 or 72-year old Gisela Cueto for electoral prosecutor. The prosecutor would be named by the Public Ministry Council in time for the municipal election this Sunday, 15 March 2020. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/consensus-for-selection-of-electoral-prosecutor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137677"}],"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=137677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137704,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137677\/revisions\/137704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}