Deputies approve the Criminal Procedure Code in first discussion

Santo Domingo.- The Chamber of Deputies approved this Tuesday, in a first discussion, with modifications, the 471-article bill that institutes the Criminal Procedure Code of the Dominican Republic. Prior to its approval, the project was the subject of extensive debates by the plenary, in which 19 deputies from all political parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies participated. Among the participants in the debate was the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco, who affirmed that the project that institutes the Criminal Procedure Code has the same magnitude and historical dimension as the Extinction of Domain bill and the project that instituted the new Penal Code.

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"This project is one of the great projects that this National Congress must know and with which we are making our contribution to reduce the legislative backlog and fulfill our mandate to provide the country with the necessary laws for the legal system," Pacheco expressed.  

The legislator valued the arduous work done by the Senate of the Republic for the approval of the project, as well as the work carried out by the deputies commissioned to study the legislative piece.

“We want to thank the Executive Branch, the Judicial Branch, the Attorney General's Office, the Public Defender's Office, who worked hard to defend fundamental rights, as we have done here in Congress,” he stated.  

Also, the president of the Permanent Justice Commission, deputy Wandy Batista, said that during the study of the project in the commission, they worked with reflection, seriousness and with science, to try to have a balanced criterion, which is what corresponds as legislators.