A back page editorial in Diario Libre on Saturday, 11 February 2017, wondered if the president of the Central Electoral Board, Julio César Castaños Guzmán, like his predecessors, is bluffing when he says he will not authorize political party fund disbursements without requisite accountability.
The editorial observes that the JCE is requiring that the PLD and its general election ally, the PRD, comply with the reporting of the use of the funds received for the general election campaigns in 2016 in order to receive new funds allotted to the political parties in the 2017 National Budget.
In the past, the JCE has disbursed the funds to political parties even without the presentation of the required financial statements.
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Diario Libre
13 February 2017
