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08-11-2008, 05:50 PM
Participacion Ciudadana (PC), the civic society group, has requested President Leonel Fernandez postpone changes to the Constitution until after 2010 to concentrate on pressing economic and social problems. "A complete constitutional reform, such as the nation requires, at this time could distract the nation's attention from the economic and social problems that are threatening us and generate a climate that is more of disagreement than of consensus, beginning with the way of proceeding towards this goal."
PC favors that a Constitutional Assembly be entrusted with revising the Constitution, and that it not be the result of proposals sent by the President. The ruling party is majority in Congress. PC reminded the President that a reform process conducted by a Constitutional Assembly was ratified by a government survey in 2006 when 68% of the participants approved that method. The document goes on to say that "the Constitutional Assembly was also agreed upon in the Constitutional project worked out in 2001 by the Special Commission that was created by President Hipolito Mejia, with the participation of all of the parties then recognized and by twenty social organizations that represented the most diverse social sectors and a dozen specialists."
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PC favors that a Constitutional Assembly be entrusted with revising the Constitution, and that it not be the result of proposals sent by the President. The ruling party is majority in Congress. PC reminded the President that a reform process conducted by a Constitutional Assembly was ratified by a government survey in 2006 when 68% of the participants approved that method. The document goes on to say that "the Constitutional Assembly was also agreed upon in the Constitutional project worked out in 2001 by the Special Commission that was created by President Hipolito Mejia, with the participation of all of the parties then recognized and by twenty social organizations that represented the most diverse social sectors and a dozen specialists."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)