Deputies from the three leading political parties, including the official spokespersons, representatives of different civilian institutions such as FINJUS (the Foundation for Justice and Institutionality), rejected the idea of a constitutional amendment that would extend the current term of the legislature and combine the next municipal and legislative elections with the presidential elections. In order to do this the Congress would have to pass a bill that would modify the Constitution and establish the 2006 congressional and municipal elections as good for either two or six years. This would allow the electoral process to be combined with the presidential elections of 2008. Servio Tulio Castanos Guzmas, the head of Finjus, called the proposal “inconceivable and unacceptable.” He said that an extension of the terms of the mayors and councilmen, as well as the legislators, would be a violation of the Constitution and a rejection of the popular vote. Finally, the FINJUS spokesperson said that any change in the Constitution should happen only after a national consensus has been reached and certainly not as a political initiative of certain politicians.