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10-19-2009, 03:50 PM
This afternoon the Revisory Assembly for the Constitution will continue its work in what is expected to be a heated session discussing the composition of the National Council of Magistrates (CNM). The Verification and Auditing Commission is due to present its report. The hearing of this report is an attempt to overcome the stalemate in the Revisory Assembly that has paralyzed its work since last Tuesday after the pact signed by President Leonel Fernandez and PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado that shifted the make-up of the body that appoints judges was rejected.
Diario Libre says that the commission's report proposes rewriting Articles 151 and 157, which set out that the senator and the deputy who are members of the CNM belong to the party or bloc of parties different from that of the president of the two chambers and that have the second majority in both chambers. The report also integrates the Attorney General into the CNM, which would make 8 members. Because of this, the report also presents a modification to Article 157 in order to establish that for the session to be valid, a minimum of 6 members must be present and the decision needs the vote of two-thirds of those present, and in no case can there be fewer than 5 members present. The full body of the Assembly should hear, moreover, the dissenting opinion that was submitted by the president of the Verification Commission, Frank Martinez, who says that the whole process is illegal, since according to what is being said, it is the same proposal that was rejected but with different wording.
The PRSC warned that if the PRD and the PLD insist on hastily applying the pact in relation to the CNM, it could completely annul the entire constitutional reform process. Deputy Rogelio Genao said that the pact announced by the PLD and the PRD contravenes the Constitution, the Convocation Law and the Regulations of the Revisory Assembly and "nobody is obliged to do the impossible, there is no common reason for the PLD to succumb to the pressures of the PRD to comply with a pact that has been rejected and repudiated by the people, who have called it 'the Counter Reformation'".
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Diario Libre says that the commission's report proposes rewriting Articles 151 and 157, which set out that the senator and the deputy who are members of the CNM belong to the party or bloc of parties different from that of the president of the two chambers and that have the second majority in both chambers. The report also integrates the Attorney General into the CNM, which would make 8 members. Because of this, the report also presents a modification to Article 157 in order to establish that for the session to be valid, a minimum of 6 members must be present and the decision needs the vote of two-thirds of those present, and in no case can there be fewer than 5 members present. The full body of the Assembly should hear, moreover, the dissenting opinion that was submitted by the president of the Verification Commission, Frank Martinez, who says that the whole process is illegal, since according to what is being said, it is the same proposal that was rejected but with different wording.
The PRSC warned that if the PRD and the PLD insist on hastily applying the pact in relation to the CNM, it could completely annul the entire constitutional reform process. Deputy Rogelio Genao said that the pact announced by the PLD and the PRD contravenes the Constitution, the Convocation Law and the Regulations of the Revisory Assembly and "nobody is obliged to do the impossible, there is no common reason for the PLD to succumb to the pressures of the PRD to comply with a pact that has been rejected and repudiated by the people, who have called it 'the Counter Reformation'".
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