NewsWhore
12-19-2008, 04:40 PM
The 'Que se Dice' (What's Being Said) column in Hoy points out that one does not have to be a lawyer or an expert in constitutional law to understand that the Supreme Court went off on a tangent when declaring unacceptable the recourses of violation of the Constitution presented by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and the Foro Social Alternativo against two loan contracts with the Sun Land Corporation. The two accused the government of skipping Congress when taking out the foreign loans. The government subsequently negotiated the loan payments with a private bank, divesting itself of the commitment.
"Was there a need for judges of our highest court to spend a year dodging public opinion, resorting to sophisms and cutting remarks to justify this inexcusable waste of time to finally come up with the ruling that neither the PRD nor the Foro Social Alternativo are legally eligible to present the recourses?" asks writer Claudio Acosta. "How dare they tell the country that the only citizens who are legally eligible are the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, who are the least entitled to exercise that right because they are simple echoes of the ruling party and the Executive Branch, practically the same thing?" he asks. He concludes that our beleaguered institutionalism, full of all sorts of historical calls and iniquities, has again been shaken by another of those decisions that mark a before and an after, which are called a precedent, but more than anything they make us aware of what many are warning about with justified alarm: that the so-called independence of the branches of government a long time ago, in our democracy, are now but a simple abstraction, simply a nice Constitutional ideal, but nothing else. The reality is that the Executive Branch has subjugated all. Do we need reminding where that road will lead?"
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"Was there a need for judges of our highest court to spend a year dodging public opinion, resorting to sophisms and cutting remarks to justify this inexcusable waste of time to finally come up with the ruling that neither the PRD nor the Foro Social Alternativo are legally eligible to present the recourses?" asks writer Claudio Acosta. "How dare they tell the country that the only citizens who are legally eligible are the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, who are the least entitled to exercise that right because they are simple echoes of the ruling party and the Executive Branch, practically the same thing?" he asks. He concludes that our beleaguered institutionalism, full of all sorts of historical calls and iniquities, has again been shaken by another of those decisions that mark a before and an after, which are called a precedent, but more than anything they make us aware of what many are warning about with justified alarm: that the so-called independence of the branches of government a long time ago, in our democracy, are now but a simple abstraction, simply a nice Constitutional ideal, but nothing else. The reality is that the Executive Branch has subjugated all. Do we need reminding where that road will lead?"
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)