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08-25-2006, 05:10 PM
President Leonel Fernandez's proposal to bring the Presidential and Congressional elections closer together was broadly welcomed by a range of party and civil society leaders yesterday. El Caribe reports that PRD vice president Milagros Ortiz Bosch is in favor of the suggestion but said that her party would express its formal position during the next meeting of its political commission. PRSC Secretary General Victor Gomez Casanova said that this proposal had been made by his party and delivered to the National Dialogue Coordinator Msgr. Agripino Nunez Collado. The idea is also supported by human rights activist Domingo Porfirio Rojas Nina who proposes that the elections should be held on July 1st in order to reduce the transition period, which he believes is too long and tedious. The proposal is also supported by Deputies Marino Mendoza (PRD), Ramon Antonio Cabrera (PLD) and Jose Gonzalez Sanchez (PRSC) who believe that a discussion needs to be held on the question of how the dates should be changed. The president of the Board of Directors of the Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (FINJUS) Georges Santoni Recio said that Fernandez's proposal is valid and should be discussed. Santoni recalled that the separation of elections began with a constitutional accident in the mid-1990s, when Balaguer's term of office was reduced to two years.
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