¿Case closed or act of usurpation and despotism?
February 16, 2010
More than 170 citizens, including urban planners, legislators, journalists, intellectuals, artists, entrepreneurs and leaders of various political parties, sent a formal communication to the National District City Council request to rescind the provision prohibiting the parking of vehicles in the main commercial area of Chinatown in Santo Domingo.
Besides being a beautiful act of solidarity with an ethnic community that has been a worthy example of dedication to work, the initiative group of communes lender was covered in a legitimate prerogative contained in Article 102 of Law 176-07, the District National and Municipalities, which provides the mechanisms to challenge any decision taken by the municipal authority.
The mayor's response, which surely has never fulfilled the mandate of the law that requires accountability for public funds it administers, that during his last two periods are estimated at more than 23 billion pesos, was blunt and categorically: "This case is closed. It is an issue that we do not even touch. "
Thus said Mr. Roberto Salcedo Gavilan Esmérito the request in a decent respectable citizens which included, even senior government officials and leaders of his own party, and several relatives of Professor Juan Bosch, including his daughter Barbarita Bosch Quidiello.
The despotic reaction of the mayor, is not only a gross discourtesy, but also a contempt of rule of law 176-07, which enshrines the principle of citizen participation in municipal management, as well as pose a serious act of usurpation of Article 52 of this legislation which gives such powers to the City Council, not the trustee, an officer subordinate to the standard-setting body of the chapter.
With that attitude the receiver to recognize the authority of City Council President, Mr. Winni Terrero, and blocks of aldermen, who welcomed the proposal and committed citizens to know within the regulatory body. The least you could expect is that the Board of Aldermen to assume the rightful role as the representative body of citizens, but as a just relief, at least as a basic exercise of institutional responsibility.
It is good to note that among the 174 who signed the petition include the prominent educator and journalist Rafael Toribio, sociologist and Carlos Dore Cabral government official, the tourist business leader Arturo Villanueva, the political leader Hatuey Decamps, political scientist and university professor Rosario Espinal , lawyer and communicator Carmen Imbert Brugal, the writer Marcio Veloz Magiolo, businesswoman Rachel Guerrero Vicini, architect and city planner José Emilio Brea, historian Roberto Cassa, Enzo Bonarelli businessman, former university president Robert Reyna, journalist Ines Aizpún, Amparo Chantada urbanist, retired General Manuel Polanco Salvador, the political leader Antonio Abreu Flores, film critic Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez, sociologist Wilfredo Lozano, political leader and three times Senator Ramon Alburquerque, Consuelo Despradel communicator, the Omar Rancier architect and urban planner, attorney Jottin Cury, the physician Felix Antonio Cruz Jiminian, journalist Patricia Solano, Lisette Selman communicator, journalist Ramon Colombo, the artist Sonia Silvestre, Deputy Pelegrin Castillo and economist Miguel San Beng.
In case you forgot, if you have had the opportunity to understand, let me remind Mr. Salcedo Gavilan which is the true nature of the institution mandated citizen he has had the privilege of leading in recent years, such as highlighted in one of his books the Spanish urban sociologist Manuel Castells, in his classic definition of the City Council:
"This is the most decentralized state, the most penetrated by civil society, the most accessible to the governed and most directly linked to the daily lives of the masses. In a democracy the City Council becomes the channel of representation that maximizes the expression of popular will. "
Too bad comic actor as we have spent municipal authority during the past eight years, he has not learned the part of the script that recognizes and values the citizen as the main object and character of government action.
May 6, 2010 at 11:18 pm
THE BIGGEST COMIQUERIA PALLASADA And who committed the Mayor Roberto Salcedo IS TO BE PAYING DEBTS LEFT THE MUNICIPAL DESGOBIENOS $ 1,800.000.00 Million in PRD BUS TRANSPORTATION OF AMOS. COMEDY THAT ALSO AS YOU SAY IS WHO HAS THE RETURN OF THE DISTRICT NATIONAL DESENCIA WAS NO MORE THAN A MOUSETRAP, OR YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE ON 56% OF THE VOTERS, THAT'S NOT FOR COMEDY, but by their deeds.
November 8, 2010 at 3:15 am
I correct him, MR SANCHEZ. JOHNNY VENTURA MANAGEMENT DEBT WITH NO LET NO RENEWAL PLAN. FACT ENDORSED FENATRANO BUSES BUT THE FINANCING AGREEMENT provided that the RESERVE BANK MAY, AS DO ALL BANKS, seize THOSE SAME BUS AS GUARANTEE OF PAYMENT. AS TO THE LORD HAS RETURNED SALCEDO HAWK DISTRICT NATIONAL DECENCY, ME IMAGINE YOU NOT BEEN GIVEN THE TOUR BY THE JETTY, Güibia SQUARE, SQUARE Omar Torrijos, the Hostos PARK, AVENUE PORT, THE STREET STREET BETWEEN PARIS AND THE DOCTOR BETANCES ABREU, COMFORT VILLA MARKET, THE MARKET AND ALL AREAS DUARTE AND ESTATES OF CAPITAL WHICH HAS BECOME THE BIGGEST DUMP THE CARIBBEAN. WITHOUT A DOUBT AS TO THE CAPITAL compete advantageously CARIBBEAN MORE DIRTY, IF OTHER THAN PORT AU PRINCE, FOR THE REASONS THAT ALL KNOW HERE AND THERE. ALTHOUGH THE DEVASTATION OF EARTHQUAKE SALCEDO, VERY LIKELY NOT LEFT BEHIND. YOU ALSO REMEMBER THAT THE LORD HAS HANDLED MORE SALCEDO HAWK RESOURCES TRUSTEES THAT HAD ALL THE CAPITAL SINCE THE FALL OF TRUJILLO AND THE TRUTH IS THAT NO ONE KNOWS THAT HAS BEEN DONE WITH THAT MONEY. TEN CANQUIÑAS PARKS IN ANY WAY THAT COULD JUSTIFY expense.
November 18th, 2010 at 11:58 am
For that we only like to criticize and do nothing to improve things, the work must depend on each one of us or the city is intent of the trustee, we should be ashamed to claim that one man can handle 1,000,000 of problems we cause the citizens unconsciousness.