Reform to the Chamber of Deputies

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The fiscal reform, which was passed by the Senate on Tuesday, now moves to the Chamber of Deputies for review in January. Though the PLD party controls the lower chamber of Congress, and the political committee of the PLD has instructed all its legislators to vote in favor of the reform or face sanctions, it is not a question of plain sailing. Of the 178 deputies in the lower chamber, 96 legislators are PLD members, while 60 represent the PRD and 22 are from the PRSC. The problem lies in that the PLD political faction supporting Danilo Medina's presidential ambitions is said to be planning to vote against the reform, as well as the opposition of the united front of the PRD and PRSC. This means that of the 89 total votes needed for the measure to pass through the lower chamber there only need to be seven dissident votes from PLD members in order to reject the fiscal reform.

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