The vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies is pushing a bill that would eliminate the Dominican Municipal League, the bureaucracy whose only purpose is to serve as an intermediary between the central and city governments. PRD deputy Manuel Sanchez Carrasco, the main promoter of the bill that will be presented to the Chamber this week, says that the organization has no reason for being because the city governments control the budgets they receive. The organization was created in 1939 during the Trujillo dictatorship. Today, most municipal governments are in the hands of PRD mayors. The president of the Municipal League, Amable Aristy Castro, is from the PRSC and is regarded as one of the most powerful men in the eastern region. His daughter is the mayor of Higuey.