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09-12-2007, 05:10 PM
The magistrates of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) have signed an "informal" pact to lower the tensions that are being aired publicly. Behind these tensions are several amendments that would be added to the package of rules and regulations that would be enacted to control the 2008 Presidential elections. According to the Diario Libre, the controversial set of regulations might be approved shortly.
Once again, the JCE will try and get it done. But behind the differences, political analysts say is a power struggle for a controlling say in JCE decisions. Primarily, there is a confrontation between Aura Celeste Fernandez and Roberto Rosario. Rosario is the only judge to continue on the JCE board. In the previous board, he represented the PLD political party's interests.
The complete board of the Central Electoral Board is scheduled to meet amidst a series of small but important issues pending between the nine JCE judges. Magistrate Aura Celeste Fernandez has released a letter to the press in which she questions some of the attributes of the magistrate president of the Administrative Chamber of the JCE, Roberto Rosario. The letter mentions some one billion pesos that might have been handled without the proper authority, according to Fernandez. Today's meeting will take place with some of the tensions lessened, but observers say that there is a strong undercurrent of division among the magistrates.
Currently, according to the Diario Libre, there is a 7-2 split in the voting on the issue of whether or not the set of regulations designed to control political activities leading to the 2008 elections will be approved. Once the JCE approves the package of rules, it has to go before the major political parties for their observations. And, complicating things even more, the media, the civil observers and community organizations will all have a say in the matter.
Magistrate Eddy Olivares told Diario Libre that he thought that the regulations would be approved during today's meeting of the board. JCE chief magistrate Julio Cesar Castano Guzman told reporters that the internal squabbles of the board would not stall the approval of the new rules.
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Once again, the JCE will try and get it done. But behind the differences, political analysts say is a power struggle for a controlling say in JCE decisions. Primarily, there is a confrontation between Aura Celeste Fernandez and Roberto Rosario. Rosario is the only judge to continue on the JCE board. In the previous board, he represented the PLD political party's interests.
The complete board of the Central Electoral Board is scheduled to meet amidst a series of small but important issues pending between the nine JCE judges. Magistrate Aura Celeste Fernandez has released a letter to the press in which she questions some of the attributes of the magistrate president of the Administrative Chamber of the JCE, Roberto Rosario. The letter mentions some one billion pesos that might have been handled without the proper authority, according to Fernandez. Today's meeting will take place with some of the tensions lessened, but observers say that there is a strong undercurrent of division among the magistrates.
Currently, according to the Diario Libre, there is a 7-2 split in the voting on the issue of whether or not the set of regulations designed to control political activities leading to the 2008 elections will be approved. Once the JCE approves the package of rules, it has to go before the major political parties for their observations. And, complicating things even more, the media, the civil observers and community organizations will all have a say in the matter.
Magistrate Eddy Olivares told Diario Libre that he thought that the regulations would be approved during today's meeting of the board. JCE chief magistrate Julio Cesar Castano Guzman told reporters that the internal squabbles of the board would not stall the approval of the new rules.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)