Senators propose meeting between Leonel and Danilo
Those opposed to reelection say they are still firm and wear pins to demonstrate it
Tania Molina
SANTO DOMINGO. The possible solution of the internal crisis being experienced by the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) regarding the issue of presidential re-election, should come out of a meeting between President Danilo Medina and the former President Leonel Fernandez.
This was said yesterday by PLD Senators during a meeting which they held with the commission appointed by the Political Committee to write the legislative proposal for the reform of the Constitution which will permit the reelection of President Danilo Medina.
The Senators, who are opposed to the decision by the Committee, say they continue to be staunch in their position, and yesterday they gave the commission a document signed by 15 of them, in which they express their disagreement. But they proposed that there should be a meeting between Medina and Fernandez as a possible way out of this impasse.
The information was provided both by Reinaldo Pared Perez, the president of the commission, as well as Senator Francis Vargas, who opposes the proposal for the modification, at the end of the activity which was carried out in the offices of the PLD bloc of senators.
According to Pared Perez, the commission limited itself to inform the Senators (as it had done the day before with the deputies) about the scope of the reform, which he explained, is limited to the modification of article 144 of the Constitution, which prohibits the consecutive presidential reelection. He also said that they would insert a transitional article so that Medina, in case of being reelected in 2016, cannot ever again be elected.
"What they have said was the usual, and many of us sustain this position, that Leonel and Danilo should meet. This could be the solution. I feel that this would be the solution," Pared Perez emphasized. The Senator said that he would do everything possible in order that this coming together will take place.
Nevertheless, the Secretary-General of the PLD explained that the commission did not have the authority to deliberate, so that its role is only informative. They have still not weighed whether they should wait or whether this meeting should take place before introducing the legislative proposal that calls for the Revising points have a Gmail beta while Assembly in order to modify the Constitution.
Vargas insisted that the majority of the Senators and deputies are not in agreement that the Constitution should be modified and that, therefore, Medina and Fernandez will have to meet.
"They are the two leaders of the PLD and we have presented our position, just as the deputies did yesterday. What should now happen is that the two leaders get together and reach an agreement," he reiterated. He also insisted that the issue will not generate a division of this political organization.
"A lot of votes are needed to get it to pass"
Senators Sonia Mateo and Amarilis Santana were jubilant yesterday at the end of the meeting of the Senators with the commission.
Both of them were happily singing "No, no, it is not enough to pray," the song made popular by the singing group Los Guaraguaos, and is one of the ones most heard among revolutionary groups. After a discreet signal from Prim Pujals, Mateo stoped singing but protested, but Santana filled her lungs and made some changes to the original version of the song in order to sing "No, no, it's not enough to pray, you need a lot of votes to get it to pass."
The song is only a sample of the firmness with which they say they are maintaining their position against the modification of the Constitution in order to impose the reelection.
The ladies and another nine Senators also wore pins with the word "Firm" on them.
Before the meeting, Mateo had said that her position was not only a political issue, but rather of principles, dignity and morality. "Firm, although it costs us our death. Firm, history will judge us," insisted Mateo, the Senator from Dajabon.
The Senator from San Cristobal and in favor of Medina's reelection, Tommy Galan, was confident that the legislative proposal will pass in Congress and he recalled that of the 60 deputies that opposed the move, initially, there were only 48 left.
Let others be the opposition
President Danilo Medina wants the opposition to his intentions of being reelected to come from opposition political parties and not internally. This was revealed by Reinaldo Pared Perez, the secretary-general of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). "What the President of the Republic has insisted is that he would like for the opposition to take up the position of opposition (to his reelection)," said Pared Perez at the end of the meeting with the legislators that informed them regarding the legislative proposal that they were writing.
This was said yesterday by PLD Senators during a meeting which they held with the commission appointed by the Political Committee to write the legislative proposal for the reform of the Constitution which will permit the reelection of President Danilo Medina.
The Senators, who are opposed to the decision by the Committee, say they continue to be staunch in their position, and yesterday they gave the commission a document signed by 15 of them, in which they express their disagreement. But they proposed that there should be a meeting between Medina and Fernandez as a possible way out of this impasse.
The information was provided both by Reinaldo Pared Perez, the president of the commission, as well as Senator Francis Vargas, who opposes the proposal for the modification, at the end of the activity which was carried out in the offices of the PLD bloc of senators.
According to Pared Perez, the commission limited itself to inform the Senators (as it had done the day before with the deputies) about the scope of the reform, which he explained, is limited to the modification of article 144 of the Constitution, which prohibits the consecutive presidential reelection. He also said that they would insert a transitional article so that Medina, in case of being reelected in 2016, cannot ever again be elected.
"What they have said was the usual, and many of us sustain this position, that Leonel and Danilo should meet. This could be the solution. I feel that this would be the solution," Pared Perez emphasized. The Senator said that he would do everything possible in order that this coming together will take place.
Nevertheless, the Secretary-General of the PLD explained that the commission did not have the authority to deliberate, so that its role is only informative. They have still not weighed whether they should wait or whether this meeting should take place before introducing the legislative proposal that calls for the Revising points have a Gmail beta while Assembly in order to modify the Constitution.
Vargas insisted that the majority of the Senators and deputies are not in agreement that the Constitution should be modified and that, therefore, Medina and Fernandez will have to meet.
"They are the two leaders of the PLD and we have presented our position, just as the deputies did yesterday. What should now happen is that the two leaders get together and reach an agreement," he reiterated. He also insisted that the issue will not generate a division of this political organization.
"A lot of votes are needed to get it to pass"
Senators Sonia Mateo and Amarilis Santana were jubilant yesterday at the end of the meeting of the Senators with the commission.
Both of them were happily singing "No, no, it is not enough to pray," the song made popular by the singing group Los Guaraguaos, and is one of the ones most heard among revolutionary groups. After a discreet signal from Prim Pujals, Mateo stoped singing but protested, but Santana filled her lungs and made some changes to the original version of the song in order to sing "No, no, it's not enough to pray, you need a lot of votes to get it to pass."
The song is only a sample of the firmness with which they say they are maintaining their position against the modification of the Constitution in order to impose the reelection.
The ladies and another nine Senators also wore pins with the word "Firm" on them.
Before the meeting, Mateo had said that her position was not only a political issue, but rather of principles, dignity and morality. "Firm, although it costs us our death. Firm, history will judge us," insisted Mateo, the Senator from Dajabon.
The Senator from San Cristobal and in favor of Medina's reelection, Tommy Galan, was confident that the legislative proposal will pass in Congress and he recalled that of the 60 deputies that opposed the move, initially, there were only 48 left.
Let others be the opposition
President Danilo Medina wants the opposition to his intentions of being reelected to come from opposition political parties and not internally. This was revealed by Reinaldo Pared Perez, the secretary-general of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). "What the President of the Republic has insisted is that he would like for the opposition to take up the position of opposition (to his reelection)," said Pared Perez at the end of the meeting with the legislators that informed them regarding the legislative proposal that they were writing.
Tania Molina
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