NewsWhore
08-01-2007, 05:40 PM
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has been complaining about budget cutbacks for several months now. Last Friday the entire board had a luncheon meeting with the President and everyone was smiles after that. Over the weekend the chief magistrate of the JCE met with the Minister of the Treasury (Hacienda), Vicente Bengoa and again, smiles were seen all around. Bengoa announced that the JCE would receive an additional RD$414 million in order to supervise the overseas vote for next year's elections. Diario Libre reports JCE chief magistrate Julio Cesar Castanos as saying that the time had come "to be quiet and get to work." Roberto Rosario, another magistrate, said that the President had good intentions regarding the overseas vote, "but we are going to wait until the pesos and centavos arrive to see just what the impact will be." Castanos Guzman said that the "problem is no longer economic; the problem is to get to work."
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