The Chamber of Deputies is trying to modify the Electoral Law in order for the political parties to receive money from the National Budget every year and not just during the election years, as was recently legislated. The proposed amendment, as reported by El Caribe, was approved after one reading yesterday, but will be subjected to further review in the Chamber. The idea is to get 80% of the resources assigned to the political parties distributed in equal parts among all parties having obtained at least 5% of the popular vote in the previous election. The remaining 20% of the funds would be distributed among other official parties with candidates approved for the next electoral cycle. In the proposal submitted by 27 PRSC deputies, the 20% is divided into two parts, with the bulk going to the political organizations that received less than 5% in the previous elections and the rest to newly-formed parties and political movements. One of the issues that prompted the legislators to draw up the new bill was the fact that each year the Central Electoral Board (JCE) determines, through internal deliberations, the amount that each party will receive in the coming year. For this reason, the PRSC deputies want define the split as part of the law.