{"id":124210,"date":"2019-03-20T13:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124210"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T11:33:49","slug":"jce-passes-40-of-cost-of-primaries-to-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/20\/jce-passes-40-of-cost-of-primaries-to-political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"JCE passes 40% of cost of primaries to political parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JCE-logo-1013x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121633\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) proposed to political parties that these cover 40% of the cost of participating in the simultaneous primary day to choose their presidential candidates on 6 October 2019.  According to JCE president, Julio C\u00e9sar Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n, the PLD, the PRM, the PRD and AlPais will need to pay RD$380 million to the cost of the primaries. The JCE will cover the other 60% of the cost. The first three parties will pay RD$120 million each and the AlPais, a minority party, will pay RD$20 million. The funds will be deducted from the annual allotment the government contributes to political parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Political Parties Law 33-18 had ordered the political parties to pick up the entire cost of the primaries. Nevertheless, the JCE proposes to cover 60% of the cost in order to test the automated voting system it wants to implement for the municipal, congressional and presidential elections in 2020 during the 6 October simultaneous primaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) proposed to political parties that these cover 40% of the cost of participating in the simultaneous primary day to choose their presidential candidates on 6 October 2019. According to JCE president, Julio C\u00e9sar Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n, the PLD, the PRM, the PRD and AlPais will need to pay RD$380 million to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/20\/jce-passes-40-of-cost-of-primaries-to-political-parties\/\" 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":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124210"}],"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=124210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124265,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124210\/revisions\/124265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}