The Executive Branch has sent to Congress the constitutional reform bill containing the four parts agreed upon by leaders of the three majority parties. El Caribe newspaper earlier pointed out that, despite having signed the agreement, the Presidency had not sent the bill containing the recommendations to Congress. The Senate finally received the agreement on Thursday, 4 October at 1:15 pm. The agreement establishes that the parties agree to reform articles 89, 90, 117 and 118 of the Constitution. This eliminates the closed voting stations. The reform pact agrees on creating the National Constitutional Assembly (Constituyente), the new body that would be in charge of reforming the constitution and that this will meet 15 days after the law is passed was created. The representative of the DR in the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) will be elected by popular vote of the congressmen. And a second electoral round to elect the President and Vice President will not be necessary if a candidate obtains more than 45% of the votes, or at least 40% of the vote and a difference of 10 percentage points between the winner and the runner up candidate.
