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11-28-2011, 12:50 PM
Hours before the PLD and PRD parties are due to meet this afternoon in the search for a solution to the crisis at the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Computer Center, the board's president, Roberto Rosario, warned that the political parties cannot constitute themselves into an electoral body or impose their proposals. The official referred to some "discussions and noises" that have emerged and accusations in which he has been described as stubborn and inflexible, allegedly because he did not give in to some demands because he felt that the JCE should not get on its knees for the political parties. "The parties and all the social actors should take care in exercising the broadest participation in all issues pertaining to the JCE, but they cannot constitute themselves into the institution itself; they should be consulted, listened to and taken into account for this, but they cannot impose their proposals on it (the JCE); the institution should be on its feet, not on its knees," he said.
Rosario referred to these issues in a speech yesterday during a graduation ceremony at the University of the Third Age (UTE). He asked if citizens wanted to see a JCE that is "weak, lacks conviction, fearful and incapable of resisting pressures, that bows before the slightest breeze." He stressed that the Dominican electoral system is mature and adult but that it still needs to see if the political system has gone through the same advancement. Besides, he assured the audience that the JCE has not taken away, nor has it denied any organization, national or international, the right to observe and that all that it has done is broaden this process to other organizations, making it "clear that there are no exclusive rights to the observation."
The second meeting with the mediation of Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado is set for 5pm. Diario Libre reports that the PRD will propose the release of the director of the Computer Center, Franklin Frias, and the creation of a collegiate computer center headed by an administrator general and two deputy directors. A similar proposal was presented to the political parties by the JCE president, suggesting that the selection of people to fill these posts should be through a consensus of the parties.
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Rosario referred to these issues in a speech yesterday during a graduation ceremony at the University of the Third Age (UTE). He asked if citizens wanted to see a JCE that is "weak, lacks conviction, fearful and incapable of resisting pressures, that bows before the slightest breeze." He stressed that the Dominican electoral system is mature and adult but that it still needs to see if the political system has gone through the same advancement. Besides, he assured the audience that the JCE has not taken away, nor has it denied any organization, national or international, the right to observe and that all that it has done is broaden this process to other organizations, making it "clear that there are no exclusive rights to the observation."
The second meeting with the mediation of Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado is set for 5pm. Diario Libre reports that the PRD will propose the release of the director of the Computer Center, Franklin Frias, and the creation of a collegiate computer center headed by an administrator general and two deputy directors. A similar proposal was presented to the political parties by the JCE president, suggesting that the selection of people to fill these posts should be through a consensus of the parties.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)