The Fundacion Derecho y Democracia, as represented by a former JCE (Central Electoral Board) judge Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman has submitted to the Supreme Court of Justice a request that the Law on Political Primaries be annulled on the grounds that it violates the Constitution. The JCE has already requested funding for RD$747 million (RD$487 million for the primaries and RD$263 million for other expenses) as part of the 2005 National Budget. The Law of Primaries delegates the JCE with the task of organizing the major political bodies’ primary elections. While the PRSC and the PLD have spoken out against it, the PRD, which pushed it through Congress in an attempt to solve their internal problems, is standing firmly behind the new system. The PRSC’s president said that to organize its most recent primary, the party barely spent RD$12 million.