SANTO DOMINGO. - The report “Popular Consultation for the Constitutional Reform” submitted to president Leonel Fernandez proposes the revocation of the mandate, as one of the measures that would be established in its amendment.

Most of the people consulted favored that proposal, who also widely support establishing the referendum, the plebiscite and the legislative initiative, figures society has long demanded in a new Constitution.

Another proposal of the report is the creation of controls on Congress, to make it more efficient, including freezing from 150 to 200 the number in the Chamber of Deputies, currently at 178, a figure expected to increase in the 2010 elections.

It also suggests raising the bar to be senator and deputy, which the dispositions in effect only requires “to be Dominican in full exercise of their civil and political rights, 25 years of age and native of the territorial jurisdiction which elects them or to at least have resided in it for consecutive five years, whereas the same conditions are required to be deputy as of that of a senator.”