NewsWhore
03-29-2011, 04:10 PM
Writing in Diario Libre's page two editorial today, editor Ines Aizpun comments that one would need three stomachs to digest all the praise served during the event organized by President Leonel Fernandez's unconditional supporters event at the Palacio de los Deportes on Sunday. "Some receive praise with courtesy and thanks. Others feel it is not enough, and others insanely distrust the motives of whoever is doing the praising," she comments. "But to digest the dose of adulation that was concentrated at the Palacio de los Deportes one has to have at least three stomachs."
She mentions that the President of the Republic has placed his party in a position that is more than difficult. She says he is willing to reform the Constitution, steamrolling over the attempts to strengthen institutions, to win any campaign at any price and backtrack the conscience of Dominican citizens to what (we thought) were the long-gone years of the 1930s and 40s.
"But since signatures cannot replace the Constitution, he needs the complicity of his party. 'See how the people acclaim me! Now you decide if you want to stay where you are'. And of course they do!"
With the painful exposure of the frivolity of the PLD higher echelons (the filming of the event shows that as well as losing their sense of humor, they have lost their sense of the ridiculous), we are on the way to an unnecessary and serious political crisis, she writes.
"Leonel is betting on his permanence and he is on the campaign trail. He doesn't care:
1. That the international community (that he pampers so much) can watch with his maneuver incredulity.
2. That it destroys the steps that have been taken to strengthen institutions.
3. Inflict injuries that are difficult and calculated on his own party.
She wonders: "Will there be enough people within the PLD with their senses to put things in place, defend their ideology, their ideas, forms and structures?"
The ruling PLD party has said it will select the pre-candidates on 10 April and the primary is set for 26 June 2011. The presidential election is scheduled for 20 May 2012.
PRD politician Hugo Tolentino Dipp described Sunday's signatures of support event as a "clown act". As reported in Hoy, he said it was incredible that a President might lend his figure to that clown act above all when he is aware that re-election is banned in the Constitution. But, as paraphrased in Hoy, he said that what the statesman wanted to demonstrate was his leadership and to impose a candidate who would respond to his interests.
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She mentions that the President of the Republic has placed his party in a position that is more than difficult. She says he is willing to reform the Constitution, steamrolling over the attempts to strengthen institutions, to win any campaign at any price and backtrack the conscience of Dominican citizens to what (we thought) were the long-gone years of the 1930s and 40s.
"But since signatures cannot replace the Constitution, he needs the complicity of his party. 'See how the people acclaim me! Now you decide if you want to stay where you are'. And of course they do!"
With the painful exposure of the frivolity of the PLD higher echelons (the filming of the event shows that as well as losing their sense of humor, they have lost their sense of the ridiculous), we are on the way to an unnecessary and serious political crisis, she writes.
"Leonel is betting on his permanence and he is on the campaign trail. He doesn't care:
1. That the international community (that he pampers so much) can watch with his maneuver incredulity.
2. That it destroys the steps that have been taken to strengthen institutions.
3. Inflict injuries that are difficult and calculated on his own party.
She wonders: "Will there be enough people within the PLD with their senses to put things in place, defend their ideology, their ideas, forms and structures?"
The ruling PLD party has said it will select the pre-candidates on 10 April and the primary is set for 26 June 2011. The presidential election is scheduled for 20 May 2012.
PRD politician Hugo Tolentino Dipp described Sunday's signatures of support event as a "clown act". As reported in Hoy, he said it was incredible that a President might lend his figure to that clown act above all when he is aware that re-election is banned in the Constitution. But, as paraphrased in Hoy, he said that what the statesman wanted to demonstrate was his leadership and to impose a candidate who would respond to his interests.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)