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Santo Domingo.- Yesterday’s order for the military and police to report to their commanders reveals a latent fear from Dominican Republic’s past regimes during elections.
The Armed Forces’ traditional announcement that it’s “a guarantor of the democratic process and of the Constitution” also resurfaced yesterday, in which y ratified his a-political and “urged” its members to abstain from taking part in meetings with affiliated groups.
The order comes in the heels of ex president and opposition PRD party presidential candidate Hipólito Mejia’s allegation that the military persecute his supporters, a denunciation the ex generals and ex chiefs of Police Pedro de Jesus Candelier and Jaime Marte Martinez support.
Last week Candelier threatened that he and his men will force the respect of the popular will and democracy “exploding whoever needs to be exploded.”
The Armed Forces Ministry’s response came swiftly in a statement, “guaranteeing that the voting will be carried out peacefully and with the support of 55,000 soldiers ready to act.”
Armed Forces minister Joaquin Virgilio Perez and Police chief Jose Polanco refuted Candelier’s and Marte’s allegations Monday that the government blackmails and intimidates its supporters in the Armed Forces and Police, to prevent Mejia’s win.
Soldiers, police “to barracks”
Starting 6am Friday Police agents and the military will be barracked throughout the presidential elections process which concludes 6pm Sunday, and could be assigned to patrols this weekend.
Polanco said the agents will report to their commanding officer who’ll issue orders as to where they’ll be assigned.
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Although their families can vote and do, for the candidate of their choice.
Politicians court the "military" vote (their families) with reason, as they could be influential in as much as
3% of the total outcome.
A motion to change this unreasonable ban should presented to legislature, in the next government, so that the military can become full members of our society.
Given the current state of an extremely poor EDUCATIONAL system without a true Democratic Civics curriculum and tradition of the historic militarization of the Dominican state I think this is dangerously premature.
We must first develop a strong democratic state apparatus defended by an EDUCATED populace as a counter balance to a Military that has an almost Genetic disposition to exceed its authority beyond that which the civil authority empowers it with.
But this is only a guess .
The corrupt Mafia that governs our country, headed by Leonela and Felix,
has a big fraud ready, and they know a lot of army men will not support it.
Many soldiers that the mafia think could support Hipolito are already in "prison".
please read at Realpolitica.com
"Why chaos and blood will be on Dominican's streets"
to see what is coming.
"The biggest problem that the country have is that Jose Anne /el agente steal the filet from the bosses and give it to his boyfriend"
That was a deep thinker!