PLD defies pact

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Members of the PRD and PLD have expressed disagreement with yesterday's decision by some PLD members to defy an agreement between President Leonel Fernandez and PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado. The pact included a series of stipulations on which senators would agree to vote on during the Revisory Assembly of the constitutional reform. However, during yesterday's Assembly session PLD and PRSC members united and voted against the proposition under discussion, which, if passed, would have allowed the opposition majority in Congress to choose the last member of the National Magistrates Council. The PLD's vote means that this Constitutional Article remains unchanged, but the outcome may have further repercussions in the context of the Vargas-Fernandez pact by setting a precedent during the next weeks of constitutional discussion. PLD legislators have demonstrated that the pact is not set in stone by deciding to vote against the party line if they see fit. PRD legislator Milton Ray Guevara stated that it was clear that PLD members didn't heed the suggestions of their leader, President Leonel Fernandez.

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