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03-31-2011, 05:40 PM
The president of the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, Dr. Marino Vinicio Castillo is expressing his concern that the National Council of Magistracy could be stripped of its legitimacy by recent legislative decisions.
Castillo added that the mechanism of the simple majority could be applied to other crucial decisions, including a possible referendum. There has been speculation that the referendum could be a loophole in the Constitution to decide whether President Leonel Fernandez can run as PLD presidential candidate in 2012. "That would be the most serious extreme and I believe that it would justify so many differences and protests (with judicial base and considerable moral base) that would damage our process and what is worse, would place Leonel Fernandez as the author of the successive manipulations so he can stand for election again and position himself in control of the Constitutional Court.
He also comments that the electoral court that would come forth as a result of a National Council of Magistracy seriously affected by illegality and illegitimacy could threaten the country's institutionalism in the future.
http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2011/3/31/369141/Diputados-desoyen-al-Presidente
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Castillo added that the mechanism of the simple majority could be applied to other crucial decisions, including a possible referendum. There has been speculation that the referendum could be a loophole in the Constitution to decide whether President Leonel Fernandez can run as PLD presidential candidate in 2012. "That would be the most serious extreme and I believe that it would justify so many differences and protests (with judicial base and considerable moral base) that would damage our process and what is worse, would place Leonel Fernandez as the author of the successive manipulations so he can stand for election again and position himself in control of the Constitutional Court.
He also comments that the electoral court that would come forth as a result of a National Council of Magistracy seriously affected by illegality and illegitimacy could threaten the country's institutionalism in the future.
http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2011/3/31/369141/Diputados-desoyen-al-Presidente
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)