SANTO DOMINGO.- Accounts Chamber judges Juan A. Lora and Jose A. Maceo yesterday submitted their resignation to Senate Reinaldo Pared, in separate letters to his office. It’s the first time in Dominican history that appointed senior officials resign under the threat of impeachment.

Lora also made his resignation public in a press conference in the Chamber offices, while Pared announced Maceo’s Thursday afternoon. The Senate president said Lora and Maceo are excluded from the planned impeachment proceedings.

The resignations took place just a few hours afther the Chamber of Deputies approved the impeachment against the members of the Accounts Chamber, on charges of misconduct in the posts.

In their letters, the two judges acknowledge the growing demand of civil society for them to step down.