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JCE suspends 5 employees responsible for voting abroad in New York, New Jersey and Washington

Santo Domingo, RD.

The Central Electoral Board suspended for 60 days the officials in charge of voting abroad in the towns of New York, New Jersey and Washington, in the United States.

He also opened an investigation into the money used for voting abroad in Milan, Italy.

The suspended personnel of the Central Electoral Board is the following: Gilberto Regil Rafael Cruz Herasme, director of the vote of Dominicans abroad. Rafael Nicolás González Graciano, voting supervisor in New York and New Jersey.

Also Licelot Díaz Fernández and Ana María Matos Espinosa, administrative assistant and supervisor, of Opree in New York and Sublime Larancuent Guzmán, who served as interim manager of OPREE in Washington.

The decisions were made by the plenary session of the institution after a report presented by a special commission, headed by the president of the JCE, on the closure of the institution’s bank accounts in the United States.

Those suspended will continue to be entitled to their wages for the 60 days.

Here is the device of the resolution approved by the plenary session:

“In this sense, the plenary session of the Central Electoral Board made up of Román Andrés Jáquez Liranzo, president and the titular members, Dolores Altagracia Fernández Sánchez, Patricia Lorenzo Paniagua, Rafael Armando Vallejo Santelises and Samir Rafael Chami Isa, unanimously approved the following recommendations of the Commission,

FIRST: Immediately initiate contact work and the process to manage through the Dominican Embassy in the United States the accreditation of the Central Electoral Board as a miscellaneous entity and thus achieve the level of autonomy of infrastructure, technical and financial capacity of the Board Central Electoral in the territory of the United States of America, with the intention that it may have its own bank accounts.

SECOND: Immediately order an external audit of a private entity on the use of resources destined for voting abroad in the United States used in the last elections of 2020, without prejudice to the fact that this commission will continue the investigations to present to the plenary a final conclusion.

THIRD: Approve the development of the regulations for the supervision and conduct of administrative, financial, electoral and educational management that should govern the Directorate of the Vote of the Dominicans in each of the electoral Circumscriptions abroad.

FOURTH: Provide that, once Ing. Gilberto Regil Rafael Cruz Herasme, concludes the enjoyment of his vacations, approved in the month of August 2020, from December 17 of this year to January 11, 2021, be suspended, temporarily, in his functions as Director of the Vote of Dominicans Abroad, for a period of sixty (60) days with enjoyment of salary.

FIFTH: Order that Rafael Nicolás González Graciano be temporarily suspended from his duties as Supervisor for the OPREEs of New York and New Jersey in the United States of America, for a period of sixty (60) days with pay, as of the date.

SIXTH: Order that Gianilda Licelot Díaz Fernández and Ana María Matos Espinosa, administrative assistant and supervisor, respectively, of the New York OPREE be suspended for a period of sixty (60) days with pay, as of the date.

SEVENTH: Designate, on an interim basis, Dolores Pérez Castillo as the person in charge of the New York OPREE, for convenience in the service and until a new decision of the plenary session.

EIGHTH: Order the temporary suspension of Sublime Larancuent Guzmán from her duties as interim manager of the Washington OPREE for a period of sixty (60) days with salary, as of the date.

NINETH: Order the beginning of an individualized evaluation of the performance of each president, member and alternates, and subsequently assess the restructuring of the OCLEEs of New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Washington in the United States of America. For these purposes, the Electoral Boards Advisory Commission shall adopt the appropriate measures.

TENTH: Order an investigation into the closure of bank accounts in Milan, Italy.

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