Members of the FNP resign from government over reform
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SD. After threatening on several occasions, the National Progressive Force (FNP) announced yesterday the formal resignation of four of its members from the positions they occupy in the administration, in rejection for the preparations on the part of the Dominican Liberation Party to go forward with a constitutional reform that will permit the reelection of President Danilo Medina.
Those who resigned are Vinicio Marino Castillo, the president and founder of the FNP and who worked as the Director General of Ethics and Governmental Integrity and the Advisor to the Executive Power on Programs of the Fight Against Drug Trafficking; and his first Vice President, Pelegrin Castillo Seman,, the Minister of Energy and Mines.
Also resigning were the Secretary-General José Ricardo Taveras Blanco, the Director General of Immigration, and Nolberto Rondon, the chairman of the National Frontier Council.
In the press communiqué, sent to the media by Vinicio Castillo Seman, a deputy for the FNP, they indicate that the decision was taken under "the unavoidable commitment by the organization with the respect for the Constitution" and which they assure "is today seriously threatened" by the intention to modify it "without complying with the mandates of a Referendum." With regard to its alliance with the PLD, the FNP noted that it has "the willingness to abandon it (the alliance) if the project of a constitutional reform proposed is approved" without a referendum.
Those who resigned are Vinicio Marino Castillo, the president and founder of the FNP and who worked as the Director General of Ethics and Governmental Integrity and the Advisor to the Executive Power on Programs of the Fight Against Drug Trafficking; and his first Vice President, Pelegrin Castillo Seman,, the Minister of Energy and Mines.
Also resigning were the Secretary-General José Ricardo Taveras Blanco, the Director General of Immigration, and Nolberto Rondon, the chairman of the National Frontier Council.
In the press communiqué, sent to the media by Vinicio Castillo Seman, a deputy for the FNP, they indicate that the decision was taken under "the unavoidable commitment by the organization with the respect for the Constitution" and which they assure "is today seriously threatened" by the intention to modify it "without complying with the mandates of a Referendum." With regard to its alliance with the PLD, the FNP noted that it has "the willingness to abandon it (the alliance) if the project of a constitutional reform proposed is approved" without a referendum.
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