The Junta Central Electoral received yesterday the RD$25.3 million allotment corresponding to the month of September. President of the JCE, Manuel Ramón Morel Cerda said he expects to receive the October allotment in the next few days from the National Treasury. He said the funds will allow them to resume their preparation of the year 2000 presidential elections. The funds had been retained by the government after the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano and the Fuerza Nacional Progresista objected the election of the new board of judges of the Junta Central Electoral, the body that organizes presidential, municipal and congressional elections in the DR. The PRSC particularly has objected the president of the board because of his past differences with the party’s leader, Dr. Joaquín Balaguer. The PRSC and FNP judicially demanded a freeze on the funds, alleging that the present judges of the court were elected in irregular manner. Judge Nurys Landry Castillo of the Segunda Cámara de los Civil y Comercial del Distrito Nacional ruled on Wednesday, 28 October that the funds be allotted.
