{"id":183135,"date":"2022-07-28T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=183135"},"modified":"2022-07-28T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:52:56","slug":"pacheco-speaks-out-for-casual-wear-at-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/28\/pacheco-speaks-out-for-casual-wear-at-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacheco speaks out for casual wear at Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lila-Alburquerque-Hoy-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183223\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco (PRM-National District) is fine with casual attire at work in Congress. He responded to a call by long-time legislator Lila Alburquerque who recently complained of the new informality of her female colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pacheco excused his colleagues, saying this is a Caribbean island. During an interview for the Corripio Communications Group luncheon, the veteran legislator remarked: &#8220;We must be flexible without going into exaggerations. For example, suppose it is not a formal session of the National Assembly. In that case, I believe that we can go without a tie, without a jacket, as happens in Spain, which is a cold country, we are a tropical country,&#8221; pointed out Pacheco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lila Alburquerque understands her colleagues must comply with the dress code resolution in place and respect the formality of the National Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Modernism is taking us I do not know how far,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;This is a different place; you are not at home, you are not in a discotheque, you are not in a restaurant,&#8221; Alburquerque told her female colleagues. &#8220;You are in your workplace,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I say, you don&#8217;t have to show off so much. And if they come in tennis shoes and show off their bellies in the next legislature, next they will come in bikinis,&#8221; said Lila Alburquerque when protesting the new casualness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/alfredo-pacheco-responde-a-lila-alburquerque-sobre-vestuario-de-diputadas\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2022\/07\/25\/731648\/lila-alburquerque-por-vestimenta-de-diputada-ya-hay-que-venir-en-short-y-la-barriga-afuera\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 July 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco (PRM-National District) is fine with casual attire at work in Congress. He responded to a call by long-time legislator Lila Alburquerque who recently complained of the new informality of her female colleagues. Pacheco excused his colleagues, saying this is a Caribbean island. During an interview for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/28\/pacheco-speaks-out-for-casual-wear-at-congress\/\" 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":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183135"}],"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=183135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183224,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183135\/revisions\/183224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}