NewsWhore
08-27-2009, 05:40 PM
Hoy newspaper editorial focuses today on the bill in Congress that would oblige Dominicans to fit the RD$1 billion to underwrite the primaries of political parties. The PRD favors the bill that would organize a primary paid by taxpayers to resolve their internal problems.
The new Party Bill proposes that the state pick up the tab for the party conventions. "It is hard to understand why the Central Electoral Board (JCE) has to pick up the tab for those primaries that are basic for any party that wants to participate in an election.
What is proper is just that the JCE supervise these and validate their results," says the editorial.
The editorial says that the financing of electoral campaigns of the parties by tax payers is a expense that is difficult to justify. "Primaries are an internal exercise that each party should fill and they should assume the costs of these," reads the editorial. Tax payers already contribute a significant percentage of the national budget to finance the parties.
Central Electoral Board president, Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman has spoken against the passing of the primary funding recourse.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)
The new Party Bill proposes that the state pick up the tab for the party conventions. "It is hard to understand why the Central Electoral Board (JCE) has to pick up the tab for those primaries that are basic for any party that wants to participate in an election.
What is proper is just that the JCE supervise these and validate their results," says the editorial.
The editorial says that the financing of electoral campaigns of the parties by tax payers is a expense that is difficult to justify. "Primaries are an internal exercise that each party should fill and they should assume the costs of these," reads the editorial. Tax payers already contribute a significant percentage of the national budget to finance the parties.
Central Electoral Board president, Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman has spoken against the passing of the primary funding recourse.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)