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Sectors warn agreements should not hurt democracy

Finjus, Justice and Transparency are against the reservation of candidates in 2016

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Sectors warn agreements should not hurt democracy
SANTO DOMINGO. Entities of the civil society and political sectors exhibited their preoccupation over the possibility of institutionalism and the party system being affected by the agreements which might be reached by the political parties for the next elections.

The vice president of the Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus), Servio Tulio Castaños, said that they have announced an agreement which contains a series of points which threaten, not only the judicial security, but also the institutional strengthening of the party system.

"God willing that the agreement that the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) are carrying out does not have the points that it is said it is going to have," he emphasized.

Castaños indicated that the negotiation of candidacies threatens the internal democracy of the political parties.

Likewise, he assured reporters that it would have a negative impact inside of each party.

For its part, the Justice and Transparency Foundation estimated that the application of reservations with regard to candidacies of the grand majority of the elective positions would translate into shelters and resources which the candidates, who have spent large sums of money promoting themselves during these months, would submit.

"I believe that the party base is going to force it, I believe that the primaries are the basis of democracy, of the institutional life inside of the parties, the competitiveness, this issue of these reservations has been questioned by us because it is a killer of democracy," indicated Trajano Vidal Potentini, the president of the foundation.

Vidal Potentini said that he felt that the creation of new provinces would translate into the expenditure of billions of pesos because two provinces would imply two governors, two Senators and more administrative bureaucracy.

He predicted that society will reject the creation of more provinces and he said that it was lucky that they managed to freeze the number of deputies at 190.

A defender of the pact

The deputy of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Tobias Crespo, said that the agreements between this organization and the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), are part of democracy in the construction of majorities and that these favor the governability in search of a solution to the fundamental problems of the country. "This is to say, that we reach an agreement on issues that are really beneficial for the development of the Dominican Republic," he indicated. He stressed that the important thing is the unification of criteria.