NewsWhore
08-02-2007, 02:30 PM
In today's page two editorial in Diario Libre, editor Ines Aizpun writes about the possibility of a new political option that could break down the inertia in the political system, "what even President Leonel Fernandez recently described as particracy, or the dictatorship of the mediocrity of the party members and their followers."
She goes on to muse, "Maybe the boards of the parties, including the candidates, do not have direct access to the tone of the commentaries of the people on the street. Voters are not interested in internal party fights until they affect their pockets and government inefficiency becomes painfully real," she writes. Aizpun comments that Customs Director Miguel Cocco's statements summed up the public feeling perfectly.
"This cabinet has no government plans, only directives and several personal business projects. That is the PLD's biggest failure that cannot be erased even if they beat the world record for building a metro line. The President, orphan of advisors, should listen because Cocco has given him the key to being reelected," she tells us today.
"The PRSC, after the unfortunate election of its candidate, even if he is the Yoda of negotiations - has nothing to look forward to... too high a rejection rate."
"People want to vote... but they do not know for whom. If someone presents a formula that would break the party mold, if someone can spur hope in a concerted national project, if only someone would throw the rotten apples out of their own party and go outside the party...
"There are many honest politicians for whom one could vote, but they are in different ranks... Good technicians, proven professionals with ideas and a sense of honor... Don't the sociopolitical realities call for a risky play?
Eduardo Estrella and Miguel Cocco have opened a door: there are things that not even professional politicians can uphold."
[Miguel Cocco, director of the Customs Department, on 30 July criticized that so many government officers had become wealthy while working in government and said that Dominican society should demand an end to corruption. "What I am saying is not a political statement, it is a complaint to all governments, including this one, my government, because we have not been what we have preached, and there is much that we haven't done," he stated.]
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She goes on to muse, "Maybe the boards of the parties, including the candidates, do not have direct access to the tone of the commentaries of the people on the street. Voters are not interested in internal party fights until they affect their pockets and government inefficiency becomes painfully real," she writes. Aizpun comments that Customs Director Miguel Cocco's statements summed up the public feeling perfectly.
"This cabinet has no government plans, only directives and several personal business projects. That is the PLD's biggest failure that cannot be erased even if they beat the world record for building a metro line. The President, orphan of advisors, should listen because Cocco has given him the key to being reelected," she tells us today.
"The PRSC, after the unfortunate election of its candidate, even if he is the Yoda of negotiations - has nothing to look forward to... too high a rejection rate."
"People want to vote... but they do not know for whom. If someone presents a formula that would break the party mold, if someone can spur hope in a concerted national project, if only someone would throw the rotten apples out of their own party and go outside the party...
"There are many honest politicians for whom one could vote, but they are in different ranks... Good technicians, proven professionals with ideas and a sense of honor... Don't the sociopolitical realities call for a risky play?
Eduardo Estrella and Miguel Cocco have opened a door: there are things that not even professional politicians can uphold."
[Miguel Cocco, director of the Customs Department, on 30 July criticized that so many government officers had become wealthy while working in government and said that Dominican society should demand an end to corruption. "What I am saying is not a political statement, it is a complaint to all governments, including this one, my government, because we have not been what we have preached, and there is much that we haven't done," he stated.]
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