The Reformista Party (PRSC) has decided to take its opposition to the current composition of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to a new level in the hopes of garnering international pressure to change the Board. The PRSC has firmly opposed the new JCE since its appointment this past summer by a PRD-controlled Congress, arguing that its new membership, particularly JCE President Manual Ramón Morel Cerda, are PRD activists and thus unlikely to be impartial. The PRSC has called for the JCE membership to be decided by consensus among the three major parties. PRSC official Dr. Gómez Bergés yesterday told the television program "Hola" that the offensive has already begun, with presentation last week of the PRSC’s accusations to the leadership of the Union of Latin American Parties (UPRA) and to the president of Venezuela’s national electoral board. UPRA is a grouping of several political parties in Latin America that counts among it members Presidents Amil Mahaud of Ecuador, Andrés Pastrana of Colombia and Hugo Banzer of Bolivia. Gómez Bergés said that the PRSC will take its case to other Latin American leaders and opinion-makers and to Europe and North America as well.
