Looks like it was too good to be true. The announced Junta Central Electoral ruling that voters would be able to choose their aldermen and their mayors as well as deputies regardless of the party they represent looks like it will not happen in 2002. A sector within the ruling PRD objected to the plan. Now a final decision has been postponed until next Friday, but sources doubt there is time to implement the new ruling before the next elections. It was intended to give voters more power.
