Judge Nurys Landry de Castillo of the Cámara Civil y Comercial del Juzgado de la Segunda Circunscripción del Distrito Nacional will study the case of the request of the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano and the Fuerza Nacional Progresista to deny funding of the Junta Central Electoral, the organization in charge of organizing elections in the DR. The demand for the ban on allotting funds made by the PRSC and the FNP is cited as the reason the Executive Branch has not disbursed moneys budgeted for the Junta Central Electoral, seriously affecting that organization’s operation. The PRSC and the FNP dispute that the new board of the JCE was unilaterally elected by the Senate where the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) is majority, and not by a consensus of the political parties which brought about the undisputed elections in 1996. Originally, the Judge had said she could not study the case because the Attorney General of the Court of Appeals, Juan Amado Santana, had the dossier on the case in his jurisdiction under the argument that he was studying the case of perversion against the course of justice maintained by the PRSC and the FNP against her predecessor, Judge Ricardo Ogando Contreras.
