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Senate sends law creating Loma Miranda National Park to Executive Power

Senators and deputies refute communiqué from Falcondo

SANTO DOMINGO. The Senate reported that yesterday it sent the President the Law that creates the Loma Miranda National Park, pending its enactment or its observation by President Danilo Medina.

The document was received by Juan Pablo Agramonte, at 10:18 a.m. yesterday, in the office of the Judicial Consultant of the Executive Power.

The Law was declared urgent in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate which each approved it in two consecutive readings.

Communiqué refuted

The arguments by the Falconbridge Dominicana Company (Falcondo), made public through a communiqué regarding the decision of the National Congress to convert this initiative into law, were rejected yesterday by Senators and deputies who defended the legality of their approval.

This was the opinion, individually, of Senators Francis Vargas and Manuel Guichardo and the spokesman for the bloc of deputies that belong to the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Ruben Maldonado, when they were consulted regarding this issue.

The Senate vice president and Senator for Puerto Plata, Francis Vargas denied that the law that was approved was unconstitutional.

He said that Falcondo has every right to complain and to appear before the Constitutional Tribunal if they feel that it is necessary.

The senator for Valverde, Manuel Guichardo, said that the issue is finished in the country, unless Falcondo was to go to the courts, which he feels is their right. "We are a sovereign country, we have rights over our territory of properties. We have the right to revise contracts to see things which are not right and that are prejudicial to the nation," he said.

The spokesman of the bloc of deputies of the PLD, Ruben Maldonado, said that if Falcondo feels that there are some constitutional violations, they should go to the courts. "There is no unconstitutionality. If there were, then they will have the opportunity to demonstrate it and to clear it up," he argued.

Legal deadline

According to article 101 of the Constitution, if the executive power does not observe this approved a law he will enact it within 10 days of receiving it, and in the case that it be declared urgent, it will be enacted within five days of its reception and will be published within 10 days of its enactment.

The same deadline applies in case the legislation is observed, according to article 102 of the Law of Laws.

"If the business was declared to be urgent, (the executive power) will make its observations within five days starting from when it was received," says the Constitution.