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SANTO DOMINGO.- Even before all the litter from Friday’s presidential election has been swept two of president Leonel Fernandez’s pro-government coalition yesterday suffered its first fissures.
The ex opposition PRSC party leader Angel Lockward accused Héctor Rodriguez Pimentel, his colleague in the political movement Leonel in the First Ballot, of misusing the money the ruling PLD party gave him for the campaign.
He said Rodriguez Pimentel didn’t give the money to the movement’s leaders in each part if the country.
That’s the reason, Lockward said, why the PLD lost in several provinces, including Montecristi (northwest), Pimentel’s home turf, and challenged him to list the money’s recipients.
He said on the contrary, he won in all jurisdictions assigned to him and did so “without a cent."
Lockward said on elections day he visited San Cristóbal province (south) and had to give money to Rodriguez Pimentel’s people, because they didn’t even have enough to eat. "And I didn’t find Rodriguez Pimentel’s collaborators anywhere."
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The practice of allocating public funds is one that is diabolicly opposed to a Democratic government and is nothing more than a robbery of the State Treasury for grossly lazy politicos who just don't want to shake the bushes for funding of their asperations to power.
Dominicans should organize on a LOCAL LEVEL and demand transparaancy anadhonesty from their elected Delegates and Senators and NOT BE LED by the nose to the slaughter house as is happening under the present practices of greedy, self-centered elected officials.
Should Dominicans exercise their rights as above, they would have a much better organized and functioning government.
Think not about today, but about tomorrow and next year and the years after that.
time2rize and others, think about what I have written and act accordingly.
TexasBill
you are right on!
These funds are supposed to level the playing fields but they create even more problems.
ONE SMALL VOICE SOON BECOMES A SHOUT WHEN REPEATED OFTEN ENOUGH BY ENOUGH PEOPLE!!!
That being said, I'll leave it up to the REALLY CONCERNED CITIZENS of the DR to turn up the volume and advance the rhetoric along those lines.
Question is, do you have the constancy to pursue the course of action which will SET YOU FREE from the ignomy you have placed upon yourselves.
TB
It is noce to be able to drea about all the things you mention. I, too, dream about th DR politicians "coming of age" and begining to act like Legislators instead of a bunch of money-humgry ladrones seeking only to enrich themselves over the next four years, now that they are guaranteed incumbency in office.
We will just have to wait and see while keeping the pressure on the government to remedy the error of their previous ways.
What percentage of accomplishment do you give them?
Remember, you have the last 500 years of political prostitution and habit to fight.
TexasBill
I hope to give this government 80% change of accomplishment, but knowing their history, I don't know for sure. I just hope that they realize that they left the people and the country down in their previous administration, and that they have learned from their failures. One thing I'm 100% sure of, is that this time the Dominican people and indeed the whole world will be monitoring the situation very carefully! And they can be sure that the pressure will be kept on until they deliver what they have promised. And I know they will say that they can not change everything overnight, and I do recognize that too. But they have four more years, that will be more than enough!! So no more blah blah blah, we want to see solutions, and we want to see them NOW!!!
Frankiboymix