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SANTO DOMINGO.- The Electoral Board’s (JCE) Administrative Chamber today ordered the Government to immediately stop payments via the “little payrolls” to members of the ruling PLD party who don’t provide any service.
JCE resolution 001-2008 orders the “little payrolls” discontinued in the ministries of Public Works, Agriculture, the Agrarian, Hydraulic Resources institutes, and the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewage Systems Corporation, among others. It also orders the National Treasurer, the General Controller and the Reservas bank to coordinate and implement all necessary measures.
The Administrative Chamber’s resolution, approved last night, orders JCE inspectors to notify it to the parties with presidential candidacies and the government agencies cited, and published in the court‘s Web site.
The JCE said the resolution stems from a March 16 request for the Government to explain the report by the journalist Nuria Piera, who uncovered the “little payrolls,” though it hadn’t received any response to date.
It adds that as regulator of electoral processes and guarantor of their transparency, equality and fairness, it’s “authorized to transitorily adopt the preventive measures it considers necessary” during the entire electoral period.
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CB scandal getting more serious
The Central Electoral Board ruled on the CB scandal today, following calls from the private and public sector for investigations into the case. JCE Judge Roberto Rosario announced the JCE has issued Resolution 001-2008 that instructs that the government discontinue payrole payments for services that do not correspond with government employees. TV journalist Nuria Piera had denounced that several centralized and decentralized government institutions had government party leaders on separate payrolls.
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While other high profile corruption cases have fallen by the wayside, the "Comite de Base" (CB) payroll scandal has gained some momentum and tomorrow PRD presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado will present the Organization of American States (OAS) with documents allegedly proving that the PLD party has been using state funds to promote the re-election of President Leonel Fernandez. The meeting with OAS officials will take place at 10am at PRD headquarters. Maldonado, quoted in Hoy, said that, "we will provide all proof that clearly and visibly reveals the illegal and abusive use of State funds."
If after a carefull vetting it is proven that Lie-onel Fernandez and the PLD have used these public funds for partisan political purposes, they should be ordered to return every single peso. Then they should be forced to resign from their positions for violating the public trust and face the legally mandated criminal punishment for this blatant robbery.
No one is above the law!