PRD revives internal divisions and smoothes the way for purges
Alberto Atallah says there is a quorum for convening the Political Commission
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SANTO DOMINGO. Putting aside the internal problems that it has had since its founding, the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) is today going through situations similar to those suffered in 1989 when Jacobo Majluta left the party or in 2004 when Hatuey de Camps was expelled from the party. Now it seems that a new break will occur in the case of its president Miguel Vargas Maldonado, whom they might expel next Friday after saying that he is responsible for the electoral defeat of the party.
For that meeting, the group headed by the former candidate Hipolito Mejia is preparing itself and its spokesman, the Deputy Alberto Atallah says that they already have the quorum needed for the meeting of the Political Commission, which is set for Friday. This party organ is composed of 250 members.
"We are not going to discard or say anything, We have to wait for that day in order to see what decisions they are going to adopt," he said.
These statements were made moments after the former candidate had a meeting with 63 of the 80 municipal district leaders of the PRD, in which these had given the former candidate their backing and support in the decisions that the party hierarchy might make during the process of post-electoral analysis.
In the meantime, the Vargas Maldonado group warned that they (the opposition) are getting into actions that could reach the Superior Electoral Tribunal and lead the PRD into a definitive division.
Alejandro Abreu and Eduardo Jorge Prats, favor a national consultation proposed by the party president in order for the organization to revise its errors and deficiencies as well as re-launching its concepts, working methods and strategies for attaining power.
According to the sociologist Cesar Perez, the expelling of Vargas Maldonado from the PRD will not solve its crisis and he called on them to revise their stance.
"The PRD, by expelling Miguel Vargas, will not solve all of its problems. The PRD should turn towards a process of renovation, it has to go towards a process of defining national objectives and as a party, it has to realize that there is a mass, there is a people behind them. They have to reorganize, they have to change a series of officials that have passed their best years," he stressed.
Nonetheless, he recognized that the president of the PRD played a role in the last elections, a role that was contrary to the interests of his party and therefore there is tension that should be resolved one way or another.
PRD: a party in crisis
One of the first crisis of the PRD came about over the disagreement between Juan Bosch and Juan Isidro Jimenez, called the "Fight of the Juanes" in 1944. Later, in 1962, the party goes through its first division because of the opposition of Juan Bosch to the vice-presidential candidacy of Buenaventura Vasquez. Another division came in 1986 between Jose Francisco Peña Gomez and Jacobo Majluta, with the latter leaving the PRD and forming his own party. In 2004 Hatuey De Camps, the then party president, was expelled and accused of high treason.
For that meeting, the group headed by the former candidate Hipolito Mejia is preparing itself and its spokesman, the Deputy Alberto Atallah says that they already have the quorum needed for the meeting of the Political Commission, which is set for Friday. This party organ is composed of 250 members.
"We are not going to discard or say anything, We have to wait for that day in order to see what decisions they are going to adopt," he said.
These statements were made moments after the former candidate had a meeting with 63 of the 80 municipal district leaders of the PRD, in which these had given the former candidate their backing and support in the decisions that the party hierarchy might make during the process of post-electoral analysis.
In the meantime, the Vargas Maldonado group warned that they (the opposition) are getting into actions that could reach the Superior Electoral Tribunal and lead the PRD into a definitive division.
Alejandro Abreu and Eduardo Jorge Prats, favor a national consultation proposed by the party president in order for the organization to revise its errors and deficiencies as well as re-launching its concepts, working methods and strategies for attaining power.
According to the sociologist Cesar Perez, the expelling of Vargas Maldonado from the PRD will not solve its crisis and he called on them to revise their stance.
"The PRD, by expelling Miguel Vargas, will not solve all of its problems. The PRD should turn towards a process of renovation, it has to go towards a process of defining national objectives and as a party, it has to realize that there is a mass, there is a people behind them. They have to reorganize, they have to change a series of officials that have passed their best years," he stressed.
Nonetheless, he recognized that the president of the PRD played a role in the last elections, a role that was contrary to the interests of his party and therefore there is tension that should be resolved one way or another.
PRD: a party in crisis
One of the first crisis of the PRD came about over the disagreement between Juan Bosch and Juan Isidro Jimenez, called the "Fight of the Juanes" in 1944. Later, in 1962, the party goes through its first division because of the opposition of Juan Bosch to the vice-presidential candidacy of Buenaventura Vasquez. Another division came in 1986 between Jose Francisco Peña Gomez and Jacobo Majluta, with the latter leaving the PRD and forming his own party. In 2004 Hatuey De Camps, the then party president, was expelled and accused of high treason.
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