Facing Political Challenges

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Report 22 Apr 2014 by Pavel Isa Contreras and Fabricio Gomez
Executive Summary Though his approval ratings are high, and the opposition is divided, President Danilo Medina faces two critical political challenges. The first is the passage of a naturalization bill that would address the status of the descendents of undocumented immigrants. The bill, which the president promises to send to Congress soon, was drafted in response to a controversial Constitutional Court ruling that denied Dominican citizenship to the children of undocumented migrants who arrived between 1929 and 2010. The ruling, which affects mostly Dominicans of Haitian origin, has bitte...

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