{"id":513397,"date":"2026-07-06T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ricardo-ripoll-criticizes-congress-and-warns-of-possible-protests-over-the-gag-law\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:31:09","slug":"ricardo-ripoll-criticizes-congress-and-warns-of-possible-protests-over-the-gag-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/ricardo-ripoll-criticizes-congress-and-warns-of-possible-protests-over-the-gag-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Ripoll criticizes Congress and warns of possible protests over the \u201cgag law\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.\u2013<\/strong> Communicator <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"674892\">Ricardo Ripoll<\/a> reacted through a video posted on his Instagram account, in which he questioned the National Congress regarding the discussion of provisions included in the new Penal Code, which, in his view, could affect freedom of expression and function as a \u201cgag law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her speech, Ripoll stated that the country is going through a moment of social tension and called on legislators to reconsider the measures being debated, warning that they could generate higher levels of discontent among the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The communicator maintained that there is an atmosphere of citizen discontent and criticized the handling of the political class, considering that it is not responding to social demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou are playing with the people\u2026 you are enemies of the nation, you are enemies of democracy. And here is the people, fed up,\u201d he\/she expressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/ricardo-ripoll\/\">Ricardo Ripoll reports assault in Bella Vista; criminal stole his cell phone<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise, he warned about the level of social unrest that, in his view, is being experienced in the country and urged Congress to avoid further conflicts with the approval of the questioned provisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ripoll concluded his message by reiterating his personal stance on the situation. \u201cAt least I, Ricardo Aguto, Ripol Garc\u00eda, Salda\u00f1a and Guerra, am willing to do whatever it takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 Communicator Ricardo Ripoll reacted through a video posted on his Instagram account, in which he questioned the National Congress regarding the discussion of provisions included in the new Penal Code, which, in his view, could affect freedom of expression and function as a \u201cgag law.\u201d In her speech, Ripoll stated that the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133559,"featured_media":514183,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29yB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/ricardo-ripollp01.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Preciosa Jimenez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/ricardo-ripollp01.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513397","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\/133559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}