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08-15-2007, 06:10 PM
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has voiced its objections to the Presidential approval of the law recently passed by Congress that alters the procedures for late birth declarations. According to Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman, the JCE chief magistrate, the JCE legal council has sent a letter to the President's legal advisor stating the reasons why the board feels that such a law would threaten the Dominican Republic's legal framework. The law, drafted by former Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito, was designed to reduce the current 30% of Dominicans who lack their "papers", and therefore do not "exist". The law loosens the requirements for a parent to declare the birth of a child as much as 16 years after birth. While Castanos Guzman admits that the law, as written, solves one problem, it creates another. According to the jurist, there is a problem with security.
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