The New York chapter of the Partido Revolucionario Moderno, the Dominican Republic’s governing party, created a 15-member commission on Sunday, October 18, whose duties include handling job opportunities and pension requests for party leaders and members.

The commission was set up at a meeting at the party’s Bronx office where most speakers criticized the chapter’s leadership for arranging jobs only for its own followers, keeping little contact with the community and not dealing with rank-and-file members as an institution should, Hoy, a Santo Domingo daily, reported in Spanish. Of the party’s 39 chapters abroad, New York’s is the only one whose leadership has not been sworn in since the party’s last national convention, the newspaper reported.

An account of the meeting’s agreements, published in nearly identical Spanish-language versions by El Viajero Digital, Somos de Quisqueya, and La Bazuca, says the commission will handle “priority cases related to employment opportunities for leaders and members of the organization” and channel pension requests from those who meet the requirements. It will also coordinate the chapter’s political and administrative work, including the Verifícate voter-verification program, cedulación, the process of obtaining Dominican national identity cards, and the registration of new members.