To please its followers, the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) is splitting congressional positions. The party would divide in two-year periods at least 30 congressional seats. The formula has been tried in the past, but it has not worked. Some 10 deputies elected in 1994, who supposedly agreed to hand their congressional seats to runner ups after a two year term, refused to do so when 1996 came around, alleging that this would violate the Constitution.
