The chairman of the Central Electoral Council (JCE), Román Jáquez Liranzo, reported that political parties will start to receive the economic benefits of the state from next week.
Jáquez explained that an agreement had been reached with the Treasury Department to resolve the deadlock that arose over how much the parties should receive and that the political organizations will receive the full RD $ 1,260 million and not half of it.
“This week the Secretary of the Treasury sent a statement to the General Directorate of Budget so that we could get the 630 million pesos as budget for the first semester and this happened and on Friday we got half for the first six months. . As of next week, we will start distribution, in accordance with our statutes, ”said Jáquez Liranzo when interviewed by journalist Adolfo Salomón about the Verdades al Aire program broadcast on CDN channel 37.
He added that the remaining RD $ 630 million for the second semester, they will be recognized in August through a supplementary budget and that this was the “solution” they found and agreed with the political parties.
These statements come earlier this week, the budget director told LISTÍN DIARIO that every month he delivered the parts in installments to the Central Electoral Council (JCE), one-twelfth of the 630.2 million, that it is up to the parties and that is why ” it understands “the reason why the electoral body has not distributed the economic resources to the political organizations.
“It is that they have not deposited any pesos because what the Council is saying is that they will not accept any amount that is not laid down in the law,” Dantés concluded by saying.
The itemized budget appearing on the Digepres page foresees the delivery of RD $ 630,200,000 to political organizations, while the other half appears with the category “not applicable”.
The executive initially ordered the allocation of 1,260 million pesos to be distributed among the political parties, but in October last year, the president of the republic, Luis Abinader, announced that he would propose to the National Congress that 50% of the quota they will political parties as it was not an electoral year this year and so it would use those funds to build the extension of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) in Santo Domingo Este Municipality, but that this would be done by consensus of the party politicians and the JCE.
At the end of January, the JCE plenary sent a letter to the General Directorate of Budget requesting the full release of those funds, to which the government agency replied that it did not have the “power” to do so.
A few days later, the Presidency’s Administrative Minister, José Ignacio Paliza, said the government will accept the Central Electoral Council’s request to maintain the distribution of resources from political parties without austerity and that it will not enter into a dispute with them. .
Law 33-2018 on Political Parties, Groups and Movements stipulates that 80% of the resources allocated by the executive branch to be distributed among the political parties will be redistributed equally among those parties that account for more than 5% of the vote for the last choice. .