Today Digital – Suspend the meeting that would decide the primaries in the Matches Law

The Special Committee of the Chamber of Deputies which studied the draft law on political parties suspended yesterday without notice and without fixed date the meeting convened for today Friday at 10:00 am, at which the media were invited to make public the pre-report prepared by the sub-committee defining the modality of primaries.
A new crisis confronts the law of parties, after the morning of Thursday, it was leaked to Congress that three of the five members of the Sub-Commission preparing the pre-report voted in favor of the implementation place open primaries, in accordance with the proposal of the President of the Republic, Danilo Medina; position that he found in the face of the current of former President Leonel Fernández within the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).
The chairman of the Special Commission and the subcommittee, Henry Merán, indicated that the meeting was suspended because of the need for political leaders of each party to have the time to evaluate and decide on proposals made by the Central Electoral Council (JCE) concerning the conditions to be fulfilled so that the electoral body can organize the simultaneous primary election
"It would be counterproductive for the commission to take a decision without weighing the proposals of the electoral body that will organize the process It is important that the organizations of each party and legislators can evaluate these approaches to the JCE to ensure that the decision to be adopted is feasible, Merán said. , léonéliste deputy.
Denunciation of leónelismo. The impossibility of consensus in the right of the parties was announced by the deputy Juan Carlos Quiñones, of the Fernandez faction , when he revealed yesterday that afterwards in the search for a consensus that would allow the approval of the law on political parties, "he shrank from the pressure that exerted on the Christian Social Reform Party (PRSC) to impose open and simultaneous primaries. "
Antier had said that the PRSC was making common cause with the proposal of the open primary government.Yesterday said that this led to a breakdown of the consensus and the impossibility of adopting the law of the parties, because without the votes of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) and the area of ​​Leonel Fernandez, the 2/3 parties would not have the necessary votes to approve the aforementioned law.