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06-24-2010, 03:20 PM
The JCE has yet to proclaim the winner in Pedernales, where the PRD is claiming irregularities in the vote.
The PLD has won 31 undisputed seats in the Senate, out of a total of 32. Why is the PLD holding on to keeping the senate seat for Pedernales?
The reason is in the numbers at the National Council of Magistracy, the government body that chooses the Supreme Court Judges. Several judges are due to retire soon.
If the PRD were awarded a seat in Congress, it would also participate in the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM), and have a say in the choice of the new judges to the Supreme Court of Justice.
The Pedernales senate case could be heard by the Supreme Court of Justice, which in the past has been biased towards the government. Nevertheless, the president of the Senate and secretary general of the PLD, Reinaldo Pared Perez says that the Supreme Court of Justice is not competent in electoral matters, adding that the JCE needs to decide by itself. Pared Perez earlier had made it clear that the new Senate with its PLD majority, will decide which of the JCE judges get to stay on. Pared Perez was re-elected senator for Santo Domingo through 2016.
As reported in Hoy, Pared Perez said that the PLD would keep the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. He said that if the party allows a deputy from their ally, the PRSC party, to hold the presidency, they would lose a membership in the National Council of Magistracy and the control of that body, because they would then only have three of the seven members.
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The PLD has won 31 undisputed seats in the Senate, out of a total of 32. Why is the PLD holding on to keeping the senate seat for Pedernales?
The reason is in the numbers at the National Council of Magistracy, the government body that chooses the Supreme Court Judges. Several judges are due to retire soon.
If the PRD were awarded a seat in Congress, it would also participate in the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM), and have a say in the choice of the new judges to the Supreme Court of Justice.
The Pedernales senate case could be heard by the Supreme Court of Justice, which in the past has been biased towards the government. Nevertheless, the president of the Senate and secretary general of the PLD, Reinaldo Pared Perez says that the Supreme Court of Justice is not competent in electoral matters, adding that the JCE needs to decide by itself. Pared Perez earlier had made it clear that the new Senate with its PLD majority, will decide which of the JCE judges get to stay on. Pared Perez was re-elected senator for Santo Domingo through 2016.
As reported in Hoy, Pared Perez said that the PLD would keep the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. He said that if the party allows a deputy from their ally, the PRSC party, to hold the presidency, they would lose a membership in the National Council of Magistracy and the control of that body, because they would then only have three of the seven members.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)