Dominican taxpayers contribution to politics is RD$13 billion in 20 years
The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Julio César Castaños Guzmán, said it is only reasonable to put a limit to electoral campaign spending in the country. He said since 1998, the political parties have spent RD$13.48 billion of taxpayer money on election campaigns. He said so far they estimate that to carry out the 2020 general election another RD$4.5 billion would need to be spent.
The law obliges use of taxpayer money for electoral campaigns in the proportion to votes received in the previous presidential election.
“We must be alert to the new reality: offers of illegal money, product of international drug trafficking, money laundering, illicit trafficking in persons and other criminal activities, that become attractive temptations that could contaminate the will of some candidates and future officials, and that, in exchange for these obsequious and immoral dispensations, they compromise their future public will, which eventually turns them into transgressors,” said the JCE president, at the lunch event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, 25 April 2018. “Irrationally, so much money is not budgeted, seeking the favor of a political will, when there comes a time when the saturation in the use of propaganda in the media becomes counterproductive,” said the public official.
Source: DR1, Listindiario
April 26, 2018
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