{"id":477757,"date":"2025-08-07T23:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/left-wing-organizations-call-for-pot-banging-protests-on-august-15-and-16-to-reject-the-criminal-code\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:54:53","slug":"left-wing-organizations-call-for-pot-banging-protests-on-august-15-and-16-to-reject-the-criminal-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/left-wing-organizations-call-for-pot-banging-protests-on-august-15-and-16-to-reject-the-criminal-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing organizations call for pot-banging protests on August 15 and 16 to reject the Criminal Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- Six left-wing organizations announced that they are joining the national repudiation campaign against the Penal Code recently approved by the National Congress and promulgated by President Luis Abinader, considering that this text, now a law, facilitates and reinforces impunity for corruption and other crimes.\n\nThe Communist Party of Labor (PCT), Caama\u00f1ista Movement (MC); Dominican Popular Movement (MPD), Homeland Party for All (PPT), Force of the Revolution (FR), and the Dominican Left Reference (RID), were represented by Luz Enedia Mej\u00eda, who said that the left-wing parties are uniting to carry out an intense national campaign to prevent the application of this abuse of power.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cLlamamos a iniciar esta campa\u00f1a con dos iniciativas puntuales: DOS CACEROLAZOS de car\u00e1cter nacional, en honor a la Restauraci\u00f3n de la Rep\u00fablica y a la defensa de la dignidad de la Patria, uno el 15 de agosto, a las ocho de la noche y el otro el 16 de agosto a la misma hora, durante diez minutos ambos d\u00edas\u201d,<\/p><cite> destac\u00f3 Mej\u00eda.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">He emphasized that the Penal Code approved by the National Congress and enacted by President Luis Abinader deserves a resounding national rejection.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/codigo-penal-contempla-causales\/\">Penal Code contemplates one of three grounds for abortion<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nThe spokesperson for the left indicated that the promulgated Penal Code removes criminal liability from the State (Government, Congress, Mayoralties, Municipal Districts), churches and political parties; it imposes unacceptable censorship and criminalizes protests.\n\n&#8220;Furthermore, it excludes the three grounds and punishes the interruption of pregnancy in exceptional cases, reduces penalties against sexist violence, disregards fundamental rights of women and the people, as well as protects the mistreatment of boys and girls,&#8221; said Luz Enedia Mej\u00eda.\n\nSimilarly, the PCT, MC, MPD, PPT, FR, and RID maintain that the promulgated <a href=\"https:\/\/poderjudicial.gob.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Codigo_Penal.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Carolina%20Alvarez\/Downloads\/Ley%20Nu%CC%81m.%2074-25%20(Co%CC%81digo%20Penal%20RD).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penal Code<\/a> reinforces despotism to the point of imposing up to 30 years in prison for sending documents or information to any foreign institution and establishing a one-year prison sentence for anyone who &#8220;insults a public official, or threatens him, or sends him writings, images&#8221;, or &#8220;makes gestures&#8221; of a nature contrary to his personal dignity and functions, which they described as a \u00a1Barbarity!\n\nThe left-wing document is signed by Manuel Salazar, for the PCT, Narciso Isa Conde and Ra\u00fal Guerrero of the MC, Melanio Ferreira and Jos\u00e9 Ramos of the MPD, Juan Santana and Malen Campusano of the PPT, Neftal\u00ed Sol\u00eds and Manuel Col\u00f3n for the FR and Carlos F\u00e9lix and Luis Emilio Gonz\u00e1lez of the RID.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"512653\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RUEDA-DE-PRENSA-IZQUIERDA-1024x461.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512653\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"512654\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8ec2ee44-8c1c-4cf8-a125-163c2f2cdb37-1-1024x461.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512654\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- Six left-wing organizations announced that they are joining the national repudiation campaign against the Penal Code recently approved by the National Congress and promulgated by President Luis Abinader, considering that this text, now a law, facilitates and reinforces impunity for corruption and other crimes. 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