The chief justice at the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Luis Arias, spoke last night of the need to establish spending limits on campaign expenses and to shorten the duration of the political campaigns to more reasonable time frames. As reported in Hoy, Arias said that the complete JCE board of justices had not reached a consensus yet on how to handle the new law on primaries, but that they were studying it seriously. Arias said that the board had requested a disbursement of RD$700 million in order to organize the primaries for the various political parties. The man entrusted with handling all political elections in the Dominican Republic told reporters he felt it would be a good idea if all the political parties and other interest groups got together to consider the feasibility of this new law on primaries. Arias made his comments during a speech at the Ateneo Dominicano sponsored by the Forum for Women in Political Parties.