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Boston. – The recently disclosed agreement between president Leonel Fernandez and ex-opposition PRD party presidential candidate Miguel Vargas must include an article on Dominicans abroad, so the constitutional reform’s first draft to clearly specify the Dominican State’s state priority with the diaspora.
“The nongovernment organization Quisqueya Foundation considers that in the present conjuncture Fernandez and Vargas are the country’s main political figures, for which they should assume a commitment of consensus in an agreement of State that defines our role in the country’s context,” said the economists Frank Valenzuela and Héctor Frias, president and executive director of the organization.
They noted that in the past electoral campaign today’s President pledged “to support the introduction in the Constitution an article relating to Dominicans abroad in a potential reform, in the concept of the participative democracy, and which clearly describes the Dominican State’s priority with Dominicans abroad.”
In an emailed statement, Valenzuela and Frias affirm that the PRD’s ex-candidate promised same line of thought in his government program, and another of Fernandez’s proposals was “to support Dominicans abroad who become citizens of the countries where they make a living, so they participate in the political and social dynamics of the country where they reside.”
They said the PRD’s ex-candidate also promised in New York City “the Project of Nation that would include all the necessary reforms and measures to guarantee the rights and facilities for Dominican residents abroad.”
They said Dominican Central Bank and Hacienda Ministry figures reveal the Dominican diaspora’s importance to the country’s economy, by contributing RD$783 billion to the country’s economy from 1998 to 2008.
They affirm it represents 52% of the Government’s revenue, as well as 60% of expenses, 210% of the direct foreign investment, 46% of the total exports, 35% of the imports, as well as 61% of the free zones’ exports in that period.
Valenzuela and Frias hailed as a positive step the right of Dominicans abroad to participate politically through congressional representation, but note that the necessary requirement for a Dominican in other countries who’ve been nationalized can resign and aspire to the highest public office, must be reduced to five years, and not the 10 years stipulated.
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Let me amend this slightly. You decided to leave your country for a new home. Had you stayed, your voice would be a valuable addition against what we have to deal with in terms of corrupt government and the abuse of power. But you left. When you did you gave up the right to determine what happens to a place in which you no longer live. When you have made enough to retire comfortably to your birthplace, please come back. But don't expect to dictate to those of us who stayed how to conduct ourselves, in the meantime.
Maybe we should stop sending remittances back as well? Maybe we should stop visiting the country and investing in it as well? Usted si habla baba, caballero.
"I dont need an amendment to state what my rights are about what i can and can not do." If this proves to be correct, it sounds like they are following the washingtons' past tactics of changing their constitution to manipulate the outcome of future agenda which has not yet been made known in la R.D..
If ever presented with the choice of which country to be a citizen of, I would go with the dissenting minority and choose la R.D. The Western Hemisphere's influence from the trainwrecked yankee northern governments antics certainly is becoming more apparent now. Very "catching" I would say.