The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Héctor Rafael Peguero Méndez (PRD-Independencia) said he would resign the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies if that would resolve the present political crisis. A political crisis has evolved from the passing of the Judicial Career Law that limits to 75 the age of the judges, affecting the Supreme Court of Justice or the Judicial Branch of government. Likewise, the PLD and PRSC grouped together to unilaterally elect the members of the Chamber of Accounts that revises the execution of the National Budget. The PLD and the PRSC supported PRD dissident Peguero Méndez in his aspirations to be re-elected as president of the Chamber of Deputies against the decision of the board of the PRD. The PRD retaliated with the Senate, where the PRD is majority, unilaterally electing new judges of the Central Electoral Board (JCE). Peguero Méndez said that the present political problems are due to the lack of good sense by the heads of the PRD that did not seek political consensus to appoint the judges of the JCE. This consensus brought about the organizing of the first successful presidential elections in 1996. Peguero told the press: "If the solution to this political conflict is that Rafael Peguero ‘that coconut-eating little black man from La Descubierta’ resign the presidency of the Chamber, it will be my pleasure to do so if the country can retake the correct direction "If the Chamber of Deputies is worth so much for the board of the PRD, more than the presidency of the Republic in 1994, more than the presidency of Peña Gómez in 1994, then we will give it up with pleasure so that there be good sense and not the overturning of what this society has gained in 30 years of consolidating democracy, step by step, and at the cost of so many struggles and blood of so many martyrs from all different sides, some in pro and others against.
