In 16 years the parties have received RD$8.26 billion
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SANTO DOMINGO. When they have in their hands the check for December of this year, the political parties will have receives the tidy sum of RD$8,260,288,466.17 (eight billion, two hundred and sixty million two hundred and eighty eight thousand, four hundred and sixty six pesos with seventeen cents) from the contributions from the state since 1998.
In 16 years, the political parties have received a dessert that averaged RD$516 million each year, a financing backed by the Electoral Law 275-97 which today is the object of a revision in the National Congress which will seek also to approve the Law of Political Parties and Groups.
The initial idea of this financing was to sustain the parties in order to avoid the penetration of dirty money into the election campaign and which conditions a political organization to pay with favors from the state this "investment" once the objective of winning the Executive, Legislative or Municipal Power is achieved.
But this objective has been questioned by the very protagonists and receptors of the funds, since they have accused one another of receiving money from known drug traffickers, both local and foreign, during each election campaign, which never goes beyond a complaint but with no judicial action.
By year
The exact amount of money by year that the parties have received is: In 1998 RD$171,683,880.00; in 1999 RD$105,823,185.00; in 2000 RD$224,231,085.00; in 2001 RD$160,314,859.25; in 2002 RD$297,376,015.00; in 2003 RD$170,287,713.00; in 2004 RD$412,855,042.00; in 2005 RD$306,721,740.59 and in 2006 RD$593,679,949.00.
In 2007 the parties received RD$296.8 millions; in 2008 1,060,063,874.00; in 2009 RD$526,502,169.00; in 2010 RD$1,085,488,234.00; in 2011 RD$640,207,260.33; in 2012 RD$1,403,210,000.00 and this year 2013 they will receive RD$805,043,460.00 which they have been receiving each month in checks of RD$67,086,957.00.
Last year the Dominican Liberation Party and the Dominican Revolutionary Party received RD$373,628,049 each. The PRSC received RD$323,567,021.33.
This year the PRD, the PLD and the PRSC will receive RD$214,678,260.00 each.
In 2012 the PQDC RD$17,605,673.17; the PRSD RD$13, 373,318.35; the PTD RD$12,827,256 and the ASD RD$8,587,408.51. Alianza País RD$8, 018, 392.85; the APD RD$19,398,982.77, the FNP RD$7,450,940.32 and MODA RD$19,408,686.82.
Health and Education
The number of RD$8.260 billion in 16 years is considerable if one takes into account the deficit that the country has accumulated in schools and hospitals during this same period.
Just this year the government has had to invest RD$700 million pesos in 29 projects of hospital infrastructures and has declared 36 of the 160 hospitals to be in "deplorable condition."
The government also had to deliver 32 ambulances which are insufficient for the 155 municipalities and 229 municipal districts.
Last April the government delivered RD$1.4 billion for the construction of 548 schools, 1,032 classrooms and the repair of 2.718 classrooms in order to complete the 10,000 promised by the administration.
In 16 years, the political parties have received a dessert that averaged RD$516 million each year, a financing backed by the Electoral Law 275-97 which today is the object of a revision in the National Congress which will seek also to approve the Law of Political Parties and Groups.
The initial idea of this financing was to sustain the parties in order to avoid the penetration of dirty money into the election campaign and which conditions a political organization to pay with favors from the state this "investment" once the objective of winning the Executive, Legislative or Municipal Power is achieved.
But this objective has been questioned by the very protagonists and receptors of the funds, since they have accused one another of receiving money from known drug traffickers, both local and foreign, during each election campaign, which never goes beyond a complaint but with no judicial action.
By year
The exact amount of money by year that the parties have received is: In 1998 RD$171,683,880.00; in 1999 RD$105,823,185.00; in 2000 RD$224,231,085.00; in 2001 RD$160,314,859.25; in 2002 RD$297,376,015.00; in 2003 RD$170,287,713.00; in 2004 RD$412,855,042.00; in 2005 RD$306,721,740.59 and in 2006 RD$593,679,949.00.
In 2007 the parties received RD$296.8 millions; in 2008 1,060,063,874.00; in 2009 RD$526,502,169.00; in 2010 RD$1,085,488,234.00; in 2011 RD$640,207,260.33; in 2012 RD$1,403,210,000.00 and this year 2013 they will receive RD$805,043,460.00 which they have been receiving each month in checks of RD$67,086,957.00.
Last year the Dominican Liberation Party and the Dominican Revolutionary Party received RD$373,628,049 each. The PRSC received RD$323,567,021.33.
This year the PRD, the PLD and the PRSC will receive RD$214,678,260.00 each.
In 2012 the PQDC RD$17,605,673.17; the PRSD RD$13, 373,318.35; the PTD RD$12,827,256 and the ASD RD$8,587,408.51. Alianza País RD$8, 018, 392.85; the APD RD$19,398,982.77, the FNP RD$7,450,940.32 and MODA RD$19,408,686.82.
Health and Education
The number of RD$8.260 billion in 16 years is considerable if one takes into account the deficit that the country has accumulated in schools and hospitals during this same period.
Just this year the government has had to invest RD$700 million pesos in 29 projects of hospital infrastructures and has declared 36 of the 160 hospitals to be in "deplorable condition."
The government also had to deliver 32 ambulances which are insufficient for the 155 municipalities and 229 municipal districts.
Last April the government delivered RD$1.4 billion for the construction of 548 schools, 1,032 classrooms and the repair of 2.718 classrooms in order to complete the 10,000 promised by the administration.
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