{"id":477008,"date":"2025-07-31T17:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ricardo-de-los-santos-responds-annoyed-to-criticisms-from-antonio-taveras-about-the-penal-code\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:56:32","slug":"ricardo-de-los-santos-responds-annoyed-to-criticisms-from-antonio-taveras-about-the-penal-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/ricardo-de-los-santos-responds-annoyed-to-criticisms-from-antonio-taveras-about-the-penal-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo de los Santos responds annoyed to criticisms from Antonio Taveras about the Penal Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Santo Domingo.\u2013<\/strong><\/em> The president of the <strong>Senate, Ricardo de los Santos,<\/strong> starred in a tense moment during Thursday&#8217;s session when he responded with evident annoyance to the statements made by his colleague, the senator for the province of Santo Domingo, Antonio Taveras, regarding the process of study and approval of the modification project to the Penal Code.<\/p>\n\n\nDuring the debate, Taveras criticized that articles which, according to him, were not discussed or agreed upon within the bicameral commission in charge of reviewing the legislative piece, ended up being approved as part of the final report of the project. His pronouncement generated an immediate reaction from De los Santos, who expressed feeling &#8220;ashamed&#8221; by the remarks of his colleague.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/aprueban-codigo-penal\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"509213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deputies approve Penal Code in second reading despite social controversies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;I am ashamed that a senator who was part of that bicameral commission now comes to say that the articles we are learning about today were neither read nor studied. That is a lack of respect for his colleagues,&#8221;<\/strong> declared De los Santos visibly upset.<\/p>\n\n\nThe Senate speaker also took the opportunity to call for order, directly addressing Taveras: &#8220;When you sit in this chair, then you can lead the debates.&#8221;\n\nThe debate in the Upper House takes place as modifications to the controversial Penal Code project, approved in the Chamber of Deputies, become known. The new text has generated conflicting positions within Congress, even among lawmakers from the same party, due to articles that have been questioned by social sectors and some congressmen.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 The president of the Senate, Ricardo de los Santos, starred in a tense moment during Thursday&#8217;s session when he responded with evident annoyance to the statements made by his colleague, the senator for the province of Santo Domingo, Antonio Taveras, regarding the process of study and approval of the modification project to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":477009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41205,24121],"class_list":["post-477008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-penal-code","tag-ricardo-de-los-santos"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-205G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/661f40ef7d73f.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/661f40ef7d73f.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}