{"id":239017,"date":"2025-07-23T06:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=239017"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:29:51","slug":"citizen-participation-demands-sanctions-for-lawmakers-failing-to-file-asset-declarations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/07\/23\/citizen-participation-demands-sanctions-for-lawmakers-failing-to-file-asset-declarations\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Participation demands sanctions for lawmakers failing to file asset declarations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to what it calls the “passive and complicit” stance of congressional leadership and political parties, the civic watchdog group Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana is calling on the Public Ministry of the Attorney General Office to investigate current and former legislators who have not submitted their sworn asset declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana is the local chapter of Transparency International. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information obtained by Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana from the Chamber of Accounts reveals a significant number of lawmakers in violation of the law. Twenty deputies elected in 2024 and 78 who left office the same year have failed to file their declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list includes deputy Kinsberly Taveras, who has in her record being removed from the position as Minister of Youth during the first government of President Luis Abinader for questions as to the millions in wealth she had published in her wealth statement in 2020, despite having only reported for tax purposes government jobs in a small municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list also includes several members of the Central American Parliament, an entity that critics have repeatedly called for elimination on grounds of their minor contributions to Dominican society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current deputies identified as not having complied with Law 311-14, which mandates these declarations, are:
\u2022 Socorro Monego (Parlacen)
\u2022 Sergio Moya
\u2022 Ram\u00f3n Gori (Parlacen)
\u2022 Rafael Chalas (Parlacen)
\u2022 Pedro Corpor\u00e1n (deceased)
\u2022 Namibia Didiez (Parlacen)
\u2022 Melvin Lara
\u2022 Kinsberly Taveras
\u2022 Juana Castillo
\u2022 Jos\u00e9 Rodriguez
\u2022 Jheyson Garcia
\u2022 Ismael Reyes (Parlacen)
\u2022 Eugenio Cede\u00f1o
\u2022 Eudy De La Cruz
\u2022 Esmeralda Mancebo
\u2022 Enmanuel Polanco (Parlacen)
\u2022 Carmen Morel
\u2022 Carlos Gil
\u2022 Angel S\u00e1nchez
\u2022 Adelso Ruben Contreras<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former senators are also in violation, says Participacion Ciudadana press release. While all current senators have reportedly complied, seven former senators remain in violation for not having submitted their declarations upon leaving office. They are:
\u2022 Bautista Rojas
\u2022 David Sosa
\u2022 Ivan Silva
\u2022 Jos\u00e9 Del Castillo
\u2022 Lenin Valdez
\u2022 Martin Nolasco
\u2022 Ram\u00f3n Pimentel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana has published the complete list of non-compliant legislators on its website as an appendix to its press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana emphasizes that the consequences for legislators who, “instead of being examples in complying with laws, become transgressors,” should begin within their own political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the organization urges the Public Ministry to apply Article 19 of the aforementioned law, which stipulates: “The Public Ministry shall initiate an investigation for presumed illicit enrichment of a public official obligated to make the sworn asset declaration, in the event of having finished the period or having been removed from office without complying with the requirements of this law according to the term established therein.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana expressed its hope that society will remember the names of these offenders and that they will face the appropriate social and electoral sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In response to what it calls the “passive and complicit” stance of congressional leadership and political parties, the civic watchdog group Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana is calling on the Public Ministry of the Attorney General Office to investigate current and former legislators who have not submitted their sworn asset declarations. Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana is the local chapter of … <\/p>\n

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