Diario las Américas., 1958-03-02
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Opposition Forces Must Have
Sense Of Responsibility

In a well defined and well
conceived democracy, it CORE
spends to the opposition forces
to discharge a supreme mission
within the political structure of
the State.
Any country whose political
forces are not adequately bal
anced between Government and
Opposition, regardless of wheth-
er this equilibrium is measured
or not with mathematical preci-
sion, must necessarily face the
threat of serious disturbances
in its institutional and demo.
cratic Set-up. Speaking in
general terms, it can be said
that as important as the Govern
ment is the Opposition, because
they both have a high mission
to fulfill in the national picture.
Under circumstances more or
less normal, the opposition
forces may act independently
among themselves, whenever this
opposition is divided in groups
or parties. Each one of those
groups Or parties not only could,
but should act in a way favorable
to its administrative program
and to its political objectives,
doing every effort to obtain as
big a following as possible so as
to be in a position that would
permit it to influence or decide,
as the case may be, the future
of the Republic, in conformance
with its theological viewpoints.
This, naturally, implies a great
political responsibility towards
the State.
When the case is not one Of
normal circumstances. as men.
toned in the preceding para
graph, the forces opposing a
totalitarian regime that is in
every way harmful to the Nation,
should consider as theirs an
obligation of much larger pro-
portions, in the sense that they
must coordinate all efforts to
accomplish what has to become
a supreme national aspiration
in the face of such painful
reality: the restoration of the
democratic form of government.
In such case, there is no room
for detailed augmentation of
groups or parties, according to
their particular standpoint in
administrative or political as
poets, but, rather, it is impera-
tive to pursue no other objective
than the salvation of the Repu-
bic, on the basis of an eminently
simple program that may assure
the restoration of order, of
peace and of democratic progress,
at least in their most important
manifestations.
The program of work should be
fundamentally plain in its en-
deavor to defend the supreme in
terests of the country, avoiding
exaggerated propositions of pro-
gramming that may give margin
to differences of opinion that
debilitate collective action or,
what is worse, completely annul
it.
In the case of a grave crisis,
movements of national scope
should be organized, in which
the citizens and their love and
loyalty to the Republic may
constitute the most vigorous
element of unity inspiring all
those who in good faith wish to
achieve the restoration of the
supreme moral and political
values of their. Fatherland.
Once this noble proposition is
accomplished, let then the nor
NAL and unavoidable political
discrepancies among parties and
groups appear, until that time
when, under the encouragement
of democracy, the right party
to govern the Republic during .
certain period is found, and
within the free play of the insti-
tutions giving life to the State.