NewsWhore
09-29-2006, 03:50 PM
In response to recent financial difficulties PRD Secretary General Orlando Jorge Mera has announced that PRD members will have to pay monthly membership fees, in a move approved by the party's national executive committee (CEN). Effective immediately, PRD legislators will pay RD$10,000, while vice presidents and deputy secretaries will pay RD$2,000 and RD$1,000. For regular CEN members, the monthly fee will be RD$300. Some PRD legislators are refusing to pay the fee. Legislator Jorge Frias, speaking to El Caribe newspaper, explained that PRD legislators are using their paychecks to pay debts incurred during the last electoral campaign. He said that the party gave the legislators checks that bounced. Mera doesn't believe the differences will affect the primary that is due to take place in January 2007, or the inauguration of the new PRD headquarters. According to Diario Libre, the PRD owes RD$77 million to creditors.
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