The Senate selected lawyers Roberto Rosario Marte, his replacement Cesar Antonio Guzman (both proposed by the PLD), and Jose Luis Tavares Tavares and his substitute Francisco Bautista Medina (both proposed by the PRD) to complete the total of nine judges appointed to the restructured Central Electoral Board (JCE). Rosario has been identified as a member of the Central Committee of the PLD and Tavares, a penal court judge from Moca, is described as a strong supporter of the PRD. The Senate refrained from choosing apolitical judges, and instead dealt one position to the PLD and another to the PRD. Of the supporting judges named to the highly politicized electoral board, six are PRD members, two are PRSC and only one is from the PLD. The JCE must now elect three judges to the administrative court and five judges to handle electoral disputes. The current JCE president, Ramon Morel Cerda, would preside over both chambers. The electoral law was reformed last year during meetings of the so-called National Dialogue at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra. The opposition parties had rejected the Senate?s choice of judges for the JCE on the grounds of their partiality to the ruling political party.