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D<\/SPAN>ominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez announced that he would submit the Constitutional Reform Project to the National Congress on August 16. The reform measures were prepared by a commission of jurists then submitted to popular vote. President Fern\u00e1ndez then suggested that the reforms should undergo Assembly Revision as a way of initiating constitutional reform in that the Dominican Republic is not intending to break from its current political system such as has happened in Europe and Latin America where reforms were decided upon through a National Assembly. This information was released from the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/P> The president contends that constitutional reform in the DR seeks to fulfill issues left undone in reforms in the past, such as those from 1994 and the modifications from 2002. <\/P> The president contends that constitutional reform in the DR seeks to fulfill issues left undone in reforms in the past, such as those from 1994 and the modifications from 2002. President Fern\u00e1ndez understands that the Dominican Constitution should define the country\u2019s democracy, social standards and rights such as was the case with recent constitutional reforms. \u201cOur constitution should establish the State of Rights, reaffirming fundamental rights that reflect the profile of a modern and democratic state,\u201d said the president. The concepts were put forward by the president this past Friday in his main speech given at the presentation of the final report titled \u201cPopular Consultation for Constitutional Reform.\u201d In addition, the text \u201cConstitutional Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean\u201d was also put into circulation in the conference hall of the Foreign Ministry. Carlos Dore Cabral, Director of Information, Analysis, Planning and Strategy of the President\u2019s Office and member of the Executive Committee responsible for writing the project for constitutional reform, gave the opening remarks at the political activity. <\/P> In addition, the text \u201cConstitutional Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean\u201d was also put into circulation in the conference hall of the Foreign Ministry. <\/P> President Fern\u00e1ndez sat at the head table of the event along with his wife Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez, Monsignor Agripino N\u00fa\u00f1ez Collado, Marcos Villam\u00e1n, Director of the National Commission for State Reform, Carlos Dore Cabral and Jos\u00e9 Manuel Trullols, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The launching of \u201cPopular Consultation for Constitutional Reform\u201d was attended by government officials, the president of the Election Board Julio C\u00e9sar Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n and three other electoral judges, the Vice President of the Supreme Court Rafael Luciano Pichardo, other judges and magistrates, the president of the Chamber of Deputies Julio C\u00e9sar Valent\u00edn, numerous lawmakers, social, civil and political leaders, the Papal Emissary and other important members of society. The activity was broadcast live all over the country on Corporaci\u00f3n de Empresas de Radio y Televisi\u00f3n (CERTV), channel 4. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Constitutional Reform to be Submitted to Congress on August 16 Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez announced that he would submit the Constitutional Reform Project to the National Congress on August 16. The reform measures were prepared by a commission of jurists then submitted to popular vote. President Fern\u00e1ndez then suggested that the reforms should undergo Assembly … Continue reading “Constitutional Reform to be Submitted to Congress on August 16”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: July 23, 2008 <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"