Parties defend the JCE; the PLD reacts cautiously
Rosario has complained of harassment from the Palace
Niza Campos
SANTO DOMINGO. After the Social Christian Reformist (PRSC) and the National Progressive Force (FNP) parties came out yesterday in defense of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), government authorities responded that they do not think that there is any harassment from the Presidential Palace against this agency.
These positions appear after the statements by the President of the JCE, Roberto Rosario Marquez, that there is a campaign to sully this agency, and that by way of the Controller of the Republic, Rafael Germosen Andujar, there is an attempt to supervise the extraordinary resources which they receive from the state, when the only institution which has the faculty to do this is the Chamber of Accounts.
Up on being consulted regarding the complaint of harassment, the political delegate of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Judicial Consultant of the Executive Power, Cesar Pina Toribio, would only say "I am not aware of this," without going into any details.
In the meantime, the presidents of the PR SC, Federico Antun Batlle and Marino Vinicio Castillo, of the FNP where an agreement as they indicated that the JCE should be covered with complete confidence, given the fact that it has earned the confidence of the people by managing itself in an adequate manner.
Antun Balle indicated: "although there are administrative affairs and in no way threatened the good administration of an electoral process and the Dominican democracy, I think that is not good and that the authorities should investigate it and any differences which could exist should be handled with the correct prudence and the maturity which our democracy now has."
In his judgment, the JCE has acted and advanced a lot in winning the confidence of the population as well as carrying out extraordinary efforts to make these processes transparent.
For his part, Castillo noted that the Constitution of the Republic does not grant authority to the control and monitoring agencies attached to the Executive Power to involve themselves in affairs of handling funds, purchases and contracts by the J CE.
"Rosario has been, as the President of the JCE, an official who has won the confidence of the people in the organization of the latest electoral processes and who has maintained a firm position in defense of the Dominican nationality, rejecting external and internal pressures which have sought to ignore the decision 168 - 13 by the Constitutional Tribunal," he said.
And Jesus Vasquez, a leader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), said that the JCE should not harbor any fear over the examination of its activities, which he understands, should always be under society's microscope, through the organisms of control created by the state and the people.
These positions appear after the statements by the President of the JCE, Roberto Rosario Marquez, that there is a campaign to sully this agency, and that by way of the Controller of the Republic, Rafael Germosen Andujar, there is an attempt to supervise the extraordinary resources which they receive from the state, when the only institution which has the faculty to do this is the Chamber of Accounts.
Up on being consulted regarding the complaint of harassment, the political delegate of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Judicial Consultant of the Executive Power, Cesar Pina Toribio, would only say "I am not aware of this," without going into any details.
In the meantime, the presidents of the PR SC, Federico Antun Batlle and Marino Vinicio Castillo, of the FNP where an agreement as they indicated that the JCE should be covered with complete confidence, given the fact that it has earned the confidence of the people by managing itself in an adequate manner.
Antun Balle indicated: "although there are administrative affairs and in no way threatened the good administration of an electoral process and the Dominican democracy, I think that is not good and that the authorities should investigate it and any differences which could exist should be handled with the correct prudence and the maturity which our democracy now has."
In his judgment, the JCE has acted and advanced a lot in winning the confidence of the population as well as carrying out extraordinary efforts to make these processes transparent.
For his part, Castillo noted that the Constitution of the Republic does not grant authority to the control and monitoring agencies attached to the Executive Power to involve themselves in affairs of handling funds, purchases and contracts by the J CE.
"Rosario has been, as the President of the JCE, an official who has won the confidence of the people in the organization of the latest electoral processes and who has maintained a firm position in defense of the Dominican nationality, rejecting external and internal pressures which have sought to ignore the decision 168 - 13 by the Constitutional Tribunal," he said.
And Jesus Vasquez, a leader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), said that the JCE should not harbor any fear over the examination of its activities, which he understands, should always be under society's microscope, through the organisms of control created by the state and the people.
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