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10-27-2006, 03:50 PM
Dominican Municipal League (LMD) chairman Amable Aristy Castro has voiced his opposition to suggested reforms to the powers of the Dominican Municipal League. Castro says that this is an example of a political witch-hunt. Castro says that the initiative by PLD member Francisco Dominguez Brito is no more than an attack on the LMD and the opposition party. Castro, quoted in Diario Libre, said that the LMD is the only body that is in the hands of the opposition and continued by saying that if the reform of the budget for the LMD goes from 5% to 0.8 percent, as suggested, that it wouldn't be enough to cover the salaries of half the LMD's employees, so it would be better to just do away with the organization as a whole. Dominican Municipality Federation president Fausto Ruiz says that an abolishment of the LMD would lead to a centralization and concentration of resources and powers and it would affect all municipalities because they would then have to go to government for resources.
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