Leonel and Vargas solve impasse in PVE computations

The impasse that for several months kept a tailings dam connection who would direct that computer center, it came to an end yesterday after the signing of an agreement between the Presidents of the parties in the Dominican Liberation (PLD) and Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) in the Department of computer science of the Central Electoral Board (JCE).

Leonel Fernández and Miguel Vargas Maldonado signed a document which proposed a new collegiate computer management, which will be composed of four technical area, without any political link or ethically reprehensible.

At the ceremony of signing of the agreement were the cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo and the rector of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Monsignor Agripino Núñez Collado, who represented the Catholic Church as witnesses.

The agreement lays down that Member of the new agency will be the current director of u000aComputations, Franklin Frias, who had differences with the charge maybe, Miguel Ángel García, and that the PLD, PRD, and the Catholic Church would propose the remaining.

The Catholic Church proposed José Agustín López, nephew of Cardinal López Rodríguez, who said that he is a versada person, who once worked for the Central Electoral Board.

Likewise, Vargas Maldonado announced that the presidential candidate of his party, Hipólito Mejía, was given power to propose the technical it deems appropriate.

Agreement
the agreement, signed in the PUCMM in an act that began at 5: 00 in the afternoon and finished half an hour then, establishes that the new management of Informatics of the JCE will be temporary and will cease its functions at the end of the electoral process on May 20 next.

Also stressed that decisions of the new management must be agreed unanimously by its u000afour members and if there is no consensus on any issue, the same shall be submitted to the President of the PVE, but persist the disagreement, the matter will be taken to the House of the institution.

Agreement signatories proposed, in addition, perform a technical audit to the computer center and the Electoral Padron, preferably with the help of técni - cos of the Organization of American States (OAS), as a measure to strengthen the transparency of presidential elections and members of the overseas from next May 20.

President Fernandez, Vargas Maldonado and witnesses López Rodríguez and Núñez Collado, established in the agreement that "it once received the present proposed by the JCE, for signatory parties to undertake its full support to the electoral process this year, within the framework of transparency and the bright".

reported that the candidate of the PRD, Hipólito Mejía, known u000athe content and agreed that the document by the Presidents of both parties was signed.

Leaders
is scheduled for today visit the JCE, Roberto Rosario, President Núñez Collado and morning plenary of the electoral institution, is convened to hear the proposal for creation of computer management.

The Chairmen of the LDP and PRD, Fernández and Miguel Maldonado, highlighted the significance of the agreement and expressed that it gives guarantee of transparency.

Fernandez said that the LDP looks with admiration and internal complacency the agreement, because it is a step towards the democratic institutions of the Dominican Republic and in the solution of a problem that was rather of discrepancy in the JCE.

"So what we are seeing is the solution to a disagreement internal, not to conflicts between parties in the search for solution of a technical nature to the" u000a"good management of the JCE", he added. The representative stated that strengthening the institutionalization of the JCE, it provides greater confidence, greater legitimacy, le - galidad and transparency of the work of supervision and administration of the next electoral contest.

Considered that the PVE is not subject of illegitimacy, questioning and challenging.

Step transcendent
"The JCE for his performance of always unreserved adherence to the law, should serve to guarantee transparency and the cleaning of the electoral contest," added.

Said that with the signing gave a transcendental step in strengthening the democratic institutions of the Dominican Republic, the JCE that due confidence that should merit on the part of all citizens by providing.

While Vargas Maldonado said that since emerged the impasse in the JCE, its position was the search for a solution to the problem.

Said that the new commitment signed by the u000aAgreement, constitutes a page in the history of political coexistence of democratic system in Dominican Republic.

He said that with the presence of López Rodríguez and Núñez Collado, sealed the commitments made by the Presidents of the PRD and PLD.

Both Fernández as Vargas Maldonado thanked the Catholic Church for having made a will in the search for a solution to the impasse that had been submitted in the JCE, and that has been achieved on the basis of the conclusion.

The output strengthens the ELECTORAL process
the presidential candidate of the LDP, Danilo Medina, considered positive for the electoral process, the agreement between his party and the PRD, to put an end to the impasse by the Directorate of Informatics of the JCE. Medina said that "what is more important is that this process is surrounded by the highest credibility, trust and transparency".

While the presidential candidate of the PRD, Hipólito Mejía, and the u000aPresident of that organization, Vargas Maldonado, had previously agreed the position to propose it as an outlet to the impasse by the direction of the Centre of Informatics of the PVE.

The general Secretary of the PRD, Orlando Jorge Mera yesterday stressed that the most important is that you sought a proposal in which both leaders, Mejía and Vargas Maldonado, were agreed.

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