JCE holds forum

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During a forum on the subject of "Electoral Campaigns", Central Electoral Board (JCE) head Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman said that indiscriminate use of taxpayer money for politics could be the ruin of the country's political parties. Castanos made his comments as talks of implementing changes in campaign finance rules have swirled around the JCE for weeks. Hoy writes that the PLD, PRSC and PRD have received 82% of all the money designated for political parties in the last 10 years, a total of RD$2.7 billion, according to JCE judge Jose Angel Aquino. Representatives from Mexico, Colombia and Spain are attending the forum. Castanos also said that the country's seemingly stable democracy could be in danger if the system doesn't evolve. Spanish politician Alfredo Belda said that all over the world it has been impossible to get political parties to adhere to a finance law and to fully implement finance reform for campaigns.

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