Santo Domingo, RD.
Deputy Sadoky Duarte, accused of hitting a member of the National Police, denied the facts and said he could not hit a woman.
Sánchez Ramírez’s legislator said that if he had to relinquish his status as a deputy, he would do so in order to defend himself before the Republican courts.
“I guarantee that if he shows me what he accuses me of, I will give the respective button to the PRM leadership and I will resign as a deputy if he shows me that I committed the deeds,” the legislator said in this afternoon’s session.
Deputy Duarte said that at no time did he touch the police station or have any physical contact with it. “I did not shake hands, I did not do any of this,” the legislator said in the sitting.
The deputy said that he had a constant social struggle as a student leader even now against the Barrick Gold mining company. “We had a confrontation and everything that hurts the Police who always live persecuting, this is their function. I created an animosity for my responsible attitude towards the National Police “, he said.
He said people in his community took to the streets. “I tell my people, I don’t want them to disturb the order, to do something wrong,” he said.
He also referred to what the current prosecutor Cotuí said, who indicated that he was hiding and defending drug traffickers. “This is a vulgar lie,” he said.
“I ask everyone, my country, that I am willing to be investigated, that a commission should go to investigate this fact, but that I am guaranteed the presumption of innocence. Accusing a person without being heard first violates a person’s right “, said the legislator.
The legislator said he did not commit any deed. “To judge me without locating the principles established in articles 68 and 69 of the Constitution, ignoring the presumption of innocence and without listening to me to express any opinion,” he complained.
“I am not able to get my hands on a woman. I am not able to go out, they see that I have not done any action, much less a woman. I have never had any criminalization to tear apart the woman in the Dominican Republic. I am terrified that he is judging me “, he insisted.
Yesterday, the President of the Republic, in an energetic tone and with several blows on the table, said that in his government he will not allow any rank to be above the law in the Dominican Republic.
Abinader referred to the aggression complaint made by a police officer, who accuses the deputy Perremeista Sadoky Duarte.
The president considers that it is appropriate and that what is appropriate is what the police corporal did, who brings the deputy to justice “and sees well”. He said that as for the party, it is not only suspended, but that it will be sent, as José Ignacio Paliza, the president of the organization, announced yesterday.
“There is no rank that can be above the law in this government, we will not allow this,” the first president stressed this morning.