Fernandez promises funds for JCE

[NewsWhore]

President Leonel Fernandez has promised the members of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) sufficient funding for the successful celebration of the May 2008 presidential elections. Fernandez met with the entire JCE at the Presidential Palace last Friday. He received a detailed report from the judges of the government body in charge of civil registry and presidential, congressional and municipal elections as to what has been accomplished and what is still to be done. JCE chief magistrate Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman pointed out that Congress had only authorized 53% of the budget submitted for 2007, and President Fernandez promised to do all he could to secure the needed funds. According to El Caribe, all the magistrates said they were pleased with the outcome of the meeting that had been pending since their appointment by the Senate.

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