{"id":15018,"date":"2007-02-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/public-hearings-on-reform-are-over\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T01:43:56","slug":"public-hearings-on-reform-are-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/02\/05\/public-hearings-on-reform-are-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Public hearings on reform are over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Leonel Fernandez formally closed the process of public hearings on the constitutional reform proposals during a ceremony at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) late on Friday. The coordinator of the Constitutional Reform Commission, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, said &#8220;the reformed Constitution and the suggestions that are accepted will constitute an important contribution to the resolution of problems by institutional means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> One result of the hearings was that most people supported presidential re-election and rejected the proposal to allow voting by members of the military or the police. Over 80% of the people wanted more requirements for obtaining Dominican citizenship. An almost unanimous suggestion was to reduce the time between elections and the swearing-in of the new authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Leonel Fernandez formally closed the process of public hearings on the constitutional reform proposals during a ceremony at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) late on Friday. The coordinator of the Constitutional Reform Commission, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, said &#8220;the reformed Constitution and the suggestions that are accepted will constitute an important contribution &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/02\/05\/public-hearings-on-reform-are-over\/\" 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":[226,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15018"}],"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=15018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}