Abinader says the reform is a pact to reelect impunity

SANTO DOMINGO. The presidential candidate for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Luis Abinader, called the constitutional reform and the accords in order to carry it out, "a pact for impunity."

The opposition leader, giving a speech over a radio and television network, assured his listeners that the support of the deputies of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) of the constitutional reform in order to facilitate the re - nomination of President Danilo Medina, "is a total denial of the principles which were always held at by our leader José Francisco Peña Gomez, and whose doctorall dissertation of 1970, called the reelection as the decisive judicial cause in the failure of representative democracy."

He said he felt proud of the PRM, of its leaders and deputies who, he pointed out, gave an extraordinary demonstration of coherence and institutional obedience, after pointing out that this is a decisive moment in which there is no place for "indifference or weakness."

Abinader said that the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD has harmed the credibility and confidence in the political institutions of the country "imposing on the country an unnecessary, untimely, anti-democratic reform that is in violation of the procedures that the Constitution itself establishes in order to be changed."

He said that the pact agreed upon between the two factions that are disputing the leadership in the PLD, is an agreement between partners for the reelection of corruption, impunity and the annihilation of the democratic practices in the country." He argued that it is time to rise up and go out to reclaim the citizen's rights and the right to live in a democratic, transparent and safe society.

A march on Saturday

Abinader convened yesterday the members of the PRM and the rank-and-file of the Convergence to come in this Saturday, starting at 2 PM, and take part in a march against this pact and in favor of the change, which will begin at the intersection of Duarte and Central avenues in the Ensanche Luperon.