{"id":123533,"date":"2019-03-05T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=123533"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:15:41","slug":"government-to-pick-up-tab-for-political-party-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/05\/government-to-pick-up-tab-for-political-party-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to pick up tab for political party primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cost-of-primaries-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123587\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cost-of-primaries-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cost-of-primaries-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While in the past, the cost of choosing their political candidates was the financial responsibility of the political parties themselves, now the Medina administration says it will be sending to Congress an amendment to the National Budget in order to add the needed funds to the Central Electoral Board (JCE) budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported in Diario Libre, Administrative Minister of the Presidency Jose Ram\u00f3n Peralta said that the government reached the agreement with the JCE for it to cover the cost of the primaries. The primaries are scheduled for 6 October 2019. The government says the primaries will serve to test the automated voting system backed by the JCE. The primaries and the new automated voting system will cost taxpayers around RD$2.8 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/costo-de-primarias-ira-al-presupuesto-complementario-GC12237551\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in the past, the cost of choosing their political candidates was the financial responsibility of the political parties themselves, now the Medina administration says it will be sending to Congress an amendment to the National Budget in order to add the needed funds to the Central Electoral Board (JCE) budget. As reported in Diario &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/05\/government-to-pick-up-tab-for-political-party-primaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123589,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123533\/revisions\/123589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}