Deputy Pelegrin Castillo, whose minority party endorsed the PLD in the 2004 election, yesterday questioned whether Dominican members of Congress have any autonomy at all. He commented that legislators are subject to the circumstantial interests of the heads of the political parties, the President of the Republic, the special economic interest groups, and even the foreign embassies in the country. According to Castillo, most of the decisions made in Congress are externally imposed. Elias Serulle of the PLD said that for decisions to be imposed as such, there need to be easily-influenced legislators.