Hoy newspaper reported that negotiations are taking place between the political parties for the election of a new board of the Chamber of Deputies, new members of the Chamber of Accounts, and a new board of the Junta Central Electoral, the electoral court. The PRSC and PLD joined forces with dissident forces to elect a board of the Chamber of Deputies that irritated the PRD majority. Earlier this month too, the PLD joined forces with the PRSC to hand-pick members of the Chamber of Accounts, that revises the execution of government funds. In response, the PRD, which is in majority in the Senate, hand-picked the judges that make up the electoral court. In the past, election organization was chaotic precisely because of the hand-picking of the judges by one of the involved parties. This was surpassed on occasion of the organization of the 1996 presidential election, when a consensus between the civic society and political parties was reached that brought about the successful organization of those elections.
