SANTO DOMINGO.- The wave of rejection against several articles of the Constitutional Reform grows, as the civic group Citizen Participation (PC) calls a “mutilation” and the Herrera industrial business leaders describe as “shameless.”

Yesterday PC said the Constitution the National Assembly is approving has mutilated more than 10 citizen rights found in the current Magna Charta and warned that if the lawmakers continue their course, the Constitution which finally surges will not guarantee governance, whereas the entity’s coordinator Samir Chami Isa affirmed it would even be illegal.

He said this week PC will begin, in coordination with other organizations, a series of actions to repudiate some articles approved by the lawmakers, who are subjected to  the agreement between president Leonel Fernandez and opposition PRD party president  Miguel Vargas.

They said the senior political leaders have “reduced their legitimacy in the new Constitution” when denying public the services and benefits of public properties, such as the access to beaches and rivers

Business leaders

Dominican Republic’s medium and small industries warned of “the dangerous institutional involution” which in their view has materialized with a constitutional reform they say has become the receptor of the political deals and for the convenience of factual powers.

The Herrera Industrial Association and the Santo Domingo Province Industrial Association Federation (FAI) expressed their alarm with the new Constitution, in which the country’s political leadership had promised was a democratic revolution, has become a step backwards.

“We’re faced with a shameless Constitution, a recipient of political interests, which has curtailed citizens rights and has tacitly yielded the transparency in public administration,” the said in a joint statement on Sunday.