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12-09-2011, 10:50 AM
The crisis that affects the Central Electoral Board (JCE) after the resignation of the Administrator General of Information Technology continues threatening the internal cohesion of the PRD and exposes it to the possibility of a split. This can be seen in the fact that the leadership of the opposition party and the followers of the presidential candidate, Hipolito Mejia, continue to suggest radically different alternatives for solving the impasse. Last night, on one side, the so-called Advisory Council of the PRD candidate judicially subpoenaed all of the members of the JCE appointed in 2006 in order for them to retake their functions in compliance of the transitional dispositions in the Constitution that orders that the members of the agency "remain in their function until the new organisms created by this Constitution are made up and their membership appointed." In answer to this announcement, and consulted last night by telephone, the PRD president, Miguel Vargas, said that the leadership of the party "was not consulted nor does it have any knowledge of this."
At a press conference headed by Emmanuel Esquea Guerrero, Milagros Ortiz Bosch and Hugo Tolentino Dipp, the Advisory Council reported that its initiative includes also a summons to the current members of the JCE so that within an "inextensible deadline of one business day, they cease in their functions which they are unconstitutionally carrying out, until the JCE and the Higher Electoral Court are created and the members appointed. They explained that "the illegal situation" is indisputable because the seventh transitional disposition of the Constitution establishes that the current membership of the JCE should remain in their jobs until the creation of the new bodies as set out in the new Constitution, and this order has not been fulfilled. In the meantime, Vargas Maldonado said that "the PRD's institutional position was already formally expressed to the JCE in a letter dated 8 November. We said then that the PRD wants to resolve any problem through dialogue and consensus."
Meanwhile, the PLD changed its position yesterday in order to ease the way towards a solution to the crisis affecting the JCE, according to statements by party general secretary Reinaldo Pared Perez.
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At a press conference headed by Emmanuel Esquea Guerrero, Milagros Ortiz Bosch and Hugo Tolentino Dipp, the Advisory Council reported that its initiative includes also a summons to the current members of the JCE so that within an "inextensible deadline of one business day, they cease in their functions which they are unconstitutionally carrying out, until the JCE and the Higher Electoral Court are created and the members appointed. They explained that "the illegal situation" is indisputable because the seventh transitional disposition of the Constitution establishes that the current membership of the JCE should remain in their jobs until the creation of the new bodies as set out in the new Constitution, and this order has not been fulfilled. In the meantime, Vargas Maldonado said that "the PRD's institutional position was already formally expressed to the JCE in a letter dated 8 November. We said then that the PRD wants to resolve any problem through dialogue and consensus."
Meanwhile, the PLD changed its position yesterday in order to ease the way towards a solution to the crisis affecting the JCE, according to statements by party general secretary Reinaldo Pared Perez.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)