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06-28-2011, 02:30 PM
The Chief Justice of the Dominican Supreme Court has threatened to resign in protest at plans to cut his operating budget by some RD$19 million a month. According to El Caribe, Subero said that such cuts in the funds that the Judicial Branch receives would be in violation of Law 46-97 that grants administrative autonomy to the Judicial Branch as well as the Legislative Branch. The cuts would also violate Law 194-04 which grants budgetary and administrative autonomy as well as the budget Law for 2011 which assigns the Judicial Branch RD$3,362,204,000 divided into 12 monthly payments of RD$280,183,678.
Subero, ever the jurist, also pointed out that any budgetary reductions affecting the judiciary would also violate Decree 186-11, issued by the President of the Republic, which excluded any institutions that have funding assigned by special laws.
Subero also indicated that whoever institutes and carries out these budget cuts would be subject to removal and ineligible for any other public post for eight years. Subero said: "I will not accept a reduction under any circumstance, nor am I going to be associated with a violation of the law," while interviewed by Channel 37, CDN. When he was asked if he would resign his post, he answered "possibly."
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Subero, ever the jurist, also pointed out that any budgetary reductions affecting the judiciary would also violate Decree 186-11, issued by the President of the Republic, which excluded any institutions that have funding assigned by special laws.
Subero also indicated that whoever institutes and carries out these budget cuts would be subject to removal and ineligible for any other public post for eight years. Subero said: "I will not accept a reduction under any circumstance, nor am I going to be associated with a violation of the law," while interviewed by Channel 37, CDN. When he was asked if he would resign his post, he answered "possibly."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)