Parties achieve agreement for the election of City Council leadership
Commissions from the PLD, PRD, PRSC and the PRM will hold a press conference today to make it offici
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SANTO DOMINGO. The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) and the newly born Majority Revolutionary Party (PRM) reached an agreement to apply the golden rule of municipalities, which will be made official during a press conference today.
The PLD secretary for municipal affairs, Ignacio Ditren, reported that a commission from this party met with representatives of the leadership of the other organizations and today at 10 o'clock in the morning they have convened the media at the Barcelo Santo Domingo hotel.
"We will make an announcement that will quiet things down in the political and municipal family," said Ditren.
This was also corroborated by the PRD Secretary-General and mayor of Los Alcarrizos, Junior Santos, who chaired a press conference yesterday with mayors from that party, where they said that officially the PRD has 55 mayors.
The PRD secretary for municipal affairs, Pedro Richardson, said that this organization has 83 of 88 directors of municipal districts and 398 Council members of the 454 that were elected on the PRD ballot at the national level.
"The agreements for municipal governability, originally proposed by our all-time leader, José Francisco Peña Gomez, form part of the contributions of the PRD to the decentralization and the strengthening of local governments," he explained.
What is the golden rule?
Santos, who is also the vice president of the Dominican Municipal Federation, said that this so-called "golden rule of municipal governability," consists of the acceptance of the proposals by the mayors and their respective parties, represented by the blocks of city Council members, to elect the leadership of the city Council.
Also present at the PRD announcement where the mayors of North Cento Domingo, Francisco Fernandez; West Santo Domingo, Francis Peña; Marino Lora of Haina and Reinato Cruz Tineo of Hato Mayor.
Also present were Nelson (Chacho) Landestoy, of Baní; Daniel Ozuna, from Boca Chica; Valentín Fernández, from Salcedo; Aneudy Ortiz, of San José de Ocoa; William Torres, from Sabaneta; Martha de Jesús García, from Guerra; Bertilia Fernández, Sabana Grande de Boyá, Ramón Pascual Gómez, from Pedro Brand, Isidro Robert, from El Carril and Juan Hernández, of La Victoria, among others. Initially the rebels sector of the PRD, now under the umbrella of the recently born PRM, in the voice of their President, Andres Bautista, was opposed to the application of the so-called "golden rule of the municipality," after pointing out that this no longer applies because the Law of the Municipalities did not exist previously, and now the job of the presidents of the city councils is to monitor and supervise.
A similar position was taken by the political leader Luis Abinader. However former President Hipolito Mejia rejected those ideas, and said that in order to favor peace in the city councils they should accept the golden rule for the election of the Council leaderships.
Support by PRSC
The President of the Social Christian Reformist Party, Federico Antun Batlle, guaranteed that the city Council members from this organization will respect the traditional pact for municipalities, in order to guarantee governability and tranquility in the city councils.
At the same time the Secretary general of the PRSC, Ramon Rogelio Genao, and the secretary for municipal affairs, Maximo Castro Silverio, revealed that there are reports that in five municipalities money is being offered so that the "pact of governability" is not respected.
They warned that sanctions would be applied, and these could include expulsion from the party for those that do not follow the party line.
The PLD secretary for municipal affairs, Ignacio Ditren, reported that a commission from this party met with representatives of the leadership of the other organizations and today at 10 o'clock in the morning they have convened the media at the Barcelo Santo Domingo hotel.
"We will make an announcement that will quiet things down in the political and municipal family," said Ditren.
This was also corroborated by the PRD Secretary-General and mayor of Los Alcarrizos, Junior Santos, who chaired a press conference yesterday with mayors from that party, where they said that officially the PRD has 55 mayors.
The PRD secretary for municipal affairs, Pedro Richardson, said that this organization has 83 of 88 directors of municipal districts and 398 Council members of the 454 that were elected on the PRD ballot at the national level.
"The agreements for municipal governability, originally proposed by our all-time leader, José Francisco Peña Gomez, form part of the contributions of the PRD to the decentralization and the strengthening of local governments," he explained.
What is the golden rule?
Santos, who is also the vice president of the Dominican Municipal Federation, said that this so-called "golden rule of municipal governability," consists of the acceptance of the proposals by the mayors and their respective parties, represented by the blocks of city Council members, to elect the leadership of the city Council.
Also present at the PRD announcement where the mayors of North Cento Domingo, Francisco Fernandez; West Santo Domingo, Francis Peña; Marino Lora of Haina and Reinato Cruz Tineo of Hato Mayor.
Also present were Nelson (Chacho) Landestoy, of Baní; Daniel Ozuna, from Boca Chica; Valentín Fernández, from Salcedo; Aneudy Ortiz, of San José de Ocoa; William Torres, from Sabaneta; Martha de Jesús García, from Guerra; Bertilia Fernández, Sabana Grande de Boyá, Ramón Pascual Gómez, from Pedro Brand, Isidro Robert, from El Carril and Juan Hernández, of La Victoria, among others. Initially the rebels sector of the PRD, now under the umbrella of the recently born PRM, in the voice of their President, Andres Bautista, was opposed to the application of the so-called "golden rule of the municipality," after pointing out that this no longer applies because the Law of the Municipalities did not exist previously, and now the job of the presidents of the city councils is to monitor and supervise.
A similar position was taken by the political leader Luis Abinader. However former President Hipolito Mejia rejected those ideas, and said that in order to favor peace in the city councils they should accept the golden rule for the election of the Council leaderships.
Support by PRSC
The President of the Social Christian Reformist Party, Federico Antun Batlle, guaranteed that the city Council members from this organization will respect the traditional pact for municipalities, in order to guarantee governability and tranquility in the city councils.
At the same time the Secretary general of the PRSC, Ramon Rogelio Genao, and the secretary for municipal affairs, Maximo Castro Silverio, revealed that there are reports that in five municipalities money is being offered so that the "pact of governability" is not respected.
They warned that sanctions would be applied, and these could include expulsion from the party for those that do not follow the party line.
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