Acting on precise instructions from the party’s leader, ex-President Dr. Joaqu?n Balaguer, the Social Christian Reform Party (PRSC), members of the PRSC Executive Committee declared that a simple expansion of the Central Election Board (JCE) membership will not solve the political crisis regarding the Board. A PRSC delegation traveled yesterday to Miami to consult on several issues with Dr. Balaguer, who is convalescing in the home of friend and long-time supporter, businessman Guaroa Liranzo. Upon their return last night by private plane at Herrera Airport, PRSC Political Secretary Federico Ant?n Batlle said that Dr. Balaguer insisted on a firm, unwavering Reformista stance regarding the JCE: the number of members (the present 5, 7 as some suggest, or 9 as the Dominican Liberation Party has called for) does not really matter; what counts is that those sitting on the Board be impartial. The PRSC has long maintained, in statements and its court challenges of the present JCE, that the members appointed last August by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD)-dominated Senate are PRD activists, and thus incapable of being impartial.
