we knew that that was coming. keep on supporting strikers.

Makes perfect sense. People who are tired of business as usual, who are not afraid to voice their opposition to corruption, clientelism, and lack of representation... people who want to build a more perfect society are joining together to fight for change.

Good for FSA and for MIUCA.

Cheers!

While, I’m always the first to state that this group is two stones throws away from politburo, but I must admit, that I’m beginning to come around to their message. Maybe they can be my protest vote this year.

Good people appear to be coordinating their actions and are finally giving the Dominican people a true choice!

Well , they are a little late. This should have been done at least a year ago. Not sufficient time to grow roots and be able to convince the rest of society that they are a viable alternative.

Just came back from a MUICA activity. IT was such a different feeling than the other parties' activities. Instead of load music and meaningless slogans, ALL the speeches had a clear message of change, social investment/development, participatory democracy, transparency, accountability, and reducing our dependence on the U.S. WHAT A CLEAR & REFRESHING message and party. Would that people be willing to turn away from all the noise from the PLD, PRD, and PRSC and take just a second to listen to what MIUCA has to say! Maybe people can realize that there is a choice.

Sounds like a spoiler candidacy to me. Some's votes are gonna get siphoned.

I understand why you may think that, but isn't democracy about allowing all voices to be heard and for people to decide? What type of democracy would it be if only two parties were allowed to compete, and the others were rediculed and pushed to the margins.

THe existance of minor parties, like the MIUCA, if healthy b/c they provide an electoral option for people to voice their extreme dissatisfaction with the business as usual, clientelistic practices, corruption, and elitism of the major parties. Plus, I'm sure that people called the PLD a poiler party when they first started.

So please don't be like the major party and ridicule and persecute those political movements that are HONESTLY trying to improve the lives of Dominicans by fighting to create a better democracy- representative, with better social service, with a fairer tax code, transparent, based on Human Rights, and with stronger economic and social links with Latin America. A Dem where dev benefit all

baldoria23

Excellent rebutal.

What people fail to realize or honestly may not know, is that Guillermo Moreno was a prosecutor in "Lie-onel" first turn at the trough, however like many of us early on he saw "Lie" was "mucha espuma y poco chocolate!" The straw that broke the camels back appears to be when he was directed to stop an investigation related to corruption, involving "Lie's" current campaign manger Francisco Javier García and he resigned.

SANTO DOMINGO. – The ex-National District prosecutor (1006-1997) spoke of his controversial 12 months in that post during president Leonel Fernandez’s first term in office (1996-2000), remembered as the chief executive’s most questioned measure which analysts view as yet another example of Government corruption.
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http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....-most-corrupt-episodes-remembered

time2rize

Oh. oh, the Haitian haters here on DT are going to go after "Lie-onel" Fernandez with a vengeance. Imagine "Lie" firing an honorable Dominican prosecutor to protect an alleged Haitian gangster. "Porfirio" is going to have a coronary!

I find refreshing as well. Although I don't know much about the other smaller parties. I think having more than one party can be healthy. Our country, the U.S. , desperately needs that. Currently we have a very weak democracy.

I am also trying to find out more information about how dominican political parties and others are responding to the needs and concerns of Dominicans abroad.

Here is a little historical info. with a parallel of another president who fired a prosecutor. At least that president had the decency to resign!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-....e/2002/06/03/AR2005112200799.html

It is about time that people in DR get a little fresh air when it comes to the political sophocation from which the country has been suffering for so many decades. My hope is that that youth gets involved in the political process and help chnage the future of the country for their good and the good of their offsprings.

dagtan: Be-careful, your comment may be construed as an invitation to "Syndrome" to enter and participate in this thread.

Ladronazo, I used to that (lol), some people around here simply not smart enough to see a new political movement arising from the ruins of our poisonous and destructive governments. However, I do not think that the small and all powerfull dominican elite will not allow a government that preaches transparency and a desire to work for the poor in trying to balance and re-distribute the services and benefits that any society deserves. I am for governments that conduct a transparent system and that racognizes the needs and wants of the society that they serve.