Santo Domingo, RD.
Since last year, the deputy of the Christian Party for Social Reform (PRSC) Pedro Botello led a fight in various settings in favor of delivering 30 percent of pension funds to workers, a project that is already in the National Congress for study.
With this fight, the legislator and his followers demanded peaceful demonstrations that ended in violence.
The last scene of the protest was in the vicinity of the National Congress, where the protesters they tried to tear down the metal fences, placed by the military guarding the legislative chambers and preventing the passage to the building where the congressmen meet.
The demonstrations caused damage to the infrastructure, and Senator Faride Raful shared several images showing one of the broken office windows and a stone under a table.
On Monday, the Presidents of the Senate of the Republic and of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Estrella and Alfredo Pacheco, respectively, dismissed the action, indicating that the case of Pedro Botello he was in the Disciplinary Council of the Chamber of Deputies, and the internal regulations and the Constitution of the Republic had sanctions.
Agree in Rule 170 of the Rules of Procedure, the Disciplinary Board may impose the following sanctions: Private reprimand; public censorship; deprivation of representing the Chamber in national and international events for the time set by the Disciplinary Board; the suspension of the working committees to which he belongs for the time to be established, “in order to impose this sanction, it will be necessary to know in advance and ratify by the plenary.
Also deprived of enjoying the daily allowance for the set time; Plenum recommendation to begin the constitutional process established in number 1) of article 83 of the Constitution of the Republic.
This figure indicates that the Chamber of Deputies can accuse before the Senate the civil servants elected by popular vote, those elected by the Senate and the National Council of Magistracy, for committing serious misconduct in the exercise of their functions. The accusation can only be made with the favorable vote of two thirds of the registrations.
In the case of the President and Vice-President of the Republic, a favorable vote shall be required for three quarters of the entries. The accused person will be suspended from his duties as soon as the Chamber declares that the accusation has taken place.
Deputy PRSC for La Romana, announced that next Saturday, February 27, They will demonstrate again in front of the National Congress, demanding 30 percent of the pension funds.
On that day, the Dominican Republic celebrates 177 years since its independence. President Luis Abinader will appear before the National Assembly, the National Congress, to make accounts.