During a heated debate in the Chamber of Deputies for a resolution that recommends that the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, sign an agreement, an international declaration, Several deputies decided to withdraw their signature from the report when they realized what it said.
The “controversial” resolution requests the Executive Power to adhere to and sign the Declaration of the Geneva Consensus on the Promotion of Women’s Health and the Strengthening of the Familyauthored by deputy Elías Wessin Chávez.
This resolution was studied by the permanent commission for Gender Equity Affairs, who, in the voice of its president, Magda Rodríguez, presented an unfavorable report and requested a negative vote.
Among the arguments used by Rodríguez are that it is the Executive Power that signs the agreement and draws the line of international relations, and that said resolution is signed mostly by Muslim countries where “women’s rights are not guaranteed.”
These arguments, as well as other criticisms of the resolution, they were seconded by other deputies who agreed with Rodríguez, while other legislators supported its approval, denying the statements of the president of the commission.
However, several members of the commission that had signed the report, stated that they had not read it and asked to withdraw their signature from it.
In this list appear the deputies Ysabel de la Cruz, Nelsa Shoraya Suárez, Carlixta Paula and Carlos Higinio de Jesús.
After this withdrawal of signatures, the proponent of the resolution, Wessin Chávez, accused the president of the commission, Magda Rodríguez, of supplanting signatures.
Faced with this accusation, Rodríguez said that “she feels ashamed to belong to a Congress where people sign without reading and ideological fanaticism is above common sense”, while affirming “she has no wealth, the only thing she has is her honor and her work speaks for her”.