NewsWhore
01-09-2008, 05:50 PM
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced the official, yes, official, opening of this year's presidential electoral campaign. There will be a formal ceremony at the JCE next Wednesday.
Reality is that all the candidates have been on the campaign trail more or less non-stop for the last few months, and some political analysts say the DR is immersed in a non-stop political campaign given that the congressional and presidential electoral periods, while separate by two years, seem to merge.
The chief magistrate of the electoral body, Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman told reporters that after the nine-hour meeting, the members decided to take a long look at the budget that has been assigned to the JCE in order to decide just what to do with the money. The 2008 budget assigns RD$985 million for the staging of the May 2008 presidential election. In 2006, when congressional and municipal elections were held, the budget assigned to the JCE was RD$981 million, of which RD$824 million were disbursed. The total 2008 budget allotment the Executive Branch proposed for the JCE is $3,55 billion.
Castanos Guzman told reporters that the JCE has to plan for a possible second round of voting, whether or not it is held. The second round of voting is required if no candidate receives 50% +1 of the votes. Because of the importance of this issue, the JCE leader expressed his belief that the deputies would revise the line items of the budget that will be needed for the elections.
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Reality is that all the candidates have been on the campaign trail more or less non-stop for the last few months, and some political analysts say the DR is immersed in a non-stop political campaign given that the congressional and presidential electoral periods, while separate by two years, seem to merge.
The chief magistrate of the electoral body, Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman told reporters that after the nine-hour meeting, the members decided to take a long look at the budget that has been assigned to the JCE in order to decide just what to do with the money. The 2008 budget assigns RD$985 million for the staging of the May 2008 presidential election. In 2006, when congressional and municipal elections were held, the budget assigned to the JCE was RD$981 million, of which RD$824 million were disbursed. The total 2008 budget allotment the Executive Branch proposed for the JCE is $3,55 billion.
Castanos Guzman told reporters that the JCE has to plan for a possible second round of voting, whether or not it is held. The second round of voting is required if no candidate receives 50% +1 of the votes. Because of the importance of this issue, the JCE leader expressed his belief that the deputies would revise the line items of the budget that will be needed for the elections.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)