National Commission Rejects Pre-Candidate with Criminal Charges: PRM’s Decision

2023-08-04 22:54:34

The National Commission for Internal Elections (CNEI) of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) rejected Rosa Amalia Pilarte López’s application for registration of pre-candidate for deputy for Circumscription 1 of La Vega province, following a Supreme Court judge of Justice was empowered in the case of drug trafficking and money laundering that continues once morest him.

“In its actions, our organization seeks to bring men and women who do not have open processes linked to crimes and offenses of criminal offenses on their ballots to popularly elected positions, which are a reflection of the values ​​and principles that it upholds” indicates the resolution.

Among the recitals, the commission specified that, “on August 1, 2023, this CNEI learned of the request filed by Pedro Inocencio Amador Espinosa, assistant attorney representing the Attorney General of the Republic, addressed to magistrate Napoleón Ricardo Estevez Lavandier, special investigating judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, through which he presents an accusation, a request to open a trial and a request to impose a measure of coercion once morest Mrs. Rosa Amalia Pilarte López, for laundering assets from drug trafficking.

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In its article two, the resolution indicates that the measure is applicable and has immediate effect.

“The Executive Director of the CNEI is ordered to notify and return the application file for the registration of pre-candidacy for deputy for Circumscription 1, of the La Vega province, to the colleague Mrs. Rosa Amalia Pilarte López, by this decision” they point out.

“The CNEI recognizes that what has been expressed does not imply condemnation yet once morest Mrs. Rosa Amalia Pilarte López, on her rests all the guarantees of the right to due process to demonstrate her innocence and the Public Ministry to demonstrate her guilt in the facts that are imputed to her in conflict with the laws, in an oral, public and contradictory trial, in accordance with the Dominican Constitution, the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Penal Code and special laws on the matter in question, which for the purposes would take an important time, perhaps beyond the celebration of the ordinary general elections of 2024 ”, indicates the resolution.

Deputy Pilarte Lopez appears as accused in the case once morest her husband Miguel Arturo Lopez Florencio (Miky Lopez) and her two children, Ada María Pilarte and José Antonio Román, once morest whom the Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges before the jurisdiction of La Vega.

Prosecutors maintain that the criminal organization moved more than RD$2 billion between 2007 and 2019, information corroborated by economic movements in national banks and whose origin was illegal activities.

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