The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr. Manuel Ram?n Morel Cerda visited former President Joaquin Balaguer in his residence yesterday. During the meeting, the JCE issued Dr. Balaguer a new voting and identification card (cedula) and photographers took pictures of both smiling. Dr. Morel Cerda has had strong differences with the former statesman in the past. This time around, he left the meeting with what he described as a commitment from Balaguer to encourage his constituency to renew their cedulas. "We absolutely lack hate or indisposition against anyone, and we are in the best disposition to help, to collaborate with the JCE, be they who they be, because we want the Junta to guarantee us, as in reality we guarantee them." Morel Cerda was accompanied by four other JCE judges on his visit to the former statesman.
