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By Georg Neumann
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Participación Ciudadana, TI’s national chapter in formation in the Dominican Republic, together with 12 other civil society organisations in the country, organised a walk against impunity and corruption at the end of September. Thousands of people showed up to take place in the march, to express their concern for the lack of judicial trials for corruption issues. |
Over the last 25 years, 250 proceedings have been reported to the judicial system in the country of which only 8 have concluded in a definite sentence and only tree people have been convicted by the tribunals.
The organisers of the walk also highlighted the results of the First National Study About the Cost of Corruption, which revealed that Dominican families had to pay more than 6 thousand millions of pesos (US $180 million) annually for corruption. The study found that low and middle class citizens suffer most from this practice.
After the walk was concluded, the organisers of the event read a manifesto in order to mobilise citizens to fight together against corruption.