SANTO DOMINGO. - The deputy Luis (Luisin) Jiménez made his congressional debut today by accusing journalists of being responsible for their bad image among the population.

He said the Chamber should begin a process to morally defend the deputies. "It’s not right that being so many honorable professionals, the journalists often without topics, often indignant because we didn’t approve a project that perhaps interested them launch attacks against the members of the Chamber, who are defenseless.”

The new legislator, taking a turn in a Chamber of Deputies session, accused the journalists of denouncing the handout of money to approve a bill, but don’t reveal who received it or who gave it, noting that the deputies are “bandits and charlatans."

Jimenez, elected in the ticket of a handful of minority parties allied with the ruling PLD, said the journalists “ruthlessly” attack the deputies without evidence when they don’t have topics for their programs.

That’s because the Chamber of Deputies in his view hasn’t created commissions to confront what he called "merciless attacks" against the “distinguished” members of the Chamber, and more than 90 percent of which are unfounded. "It’s understood that each deputy has a personal prestige in terms in their community, and when the journalists describe the set of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and Congress they do so in contemptuous terms, because no one has confronted them."

SOURCE: diariolibre.com