Hoy.com (spanish) reports that the President of the Central Electoral Committee (JCE) in the Dominican Republic wants a reduction in the public financing given to the largest parties to achieve a more equitable distribution.  

Juan Bolivar Diaz has another lengthy article at Clave Digitial on campaign finance regulations in the Dominican Republic, this time emphasizing that DR joins only Honduras in Latin America to lack any regulations campaigns transmitted on television and radio. In DR, he writes, the opposition to such regulations is framed in terms of maintaining free […]

A couple weeks ago the Dominican Republic’s Participación Ciudadana (PC) held a conference along with state commissions to discuss the state’s funding for political parties, which occurs to a degree that is considered high. PC’s press release (in spanish): http://www.pciudadana.org/noticias/08302007_seminario_financPP.htm

Previous posts here have covered allegations that despite being on the books for 10 years, the implementation of disclosure regulations in the Dominican Republic have not been enforced by the the electoral authority, the Junta Central Electoral. This is in the news again this week (Listin Diaro and Clave Digital, both in spanish) as the […]

The race for the presidential primary has begun so early and the sums of money raised and spent so great that there are renewed calls to overhaul the regulations in… the Dominican Republic. Yes, the story is not unique to the United States.
Juan Bolivar Diaz at Hoy Digital writes about the calls by some to […]

A proposal to fix spending limits is on the table and is supported by the PRD in the Dominican Republic, writes Hoy Digital (spanish). The bill is a response to the large amount of campaign fundraising and expenditure that is occuring so far in advance (and prior to the official campaign period) of next year’s election. The […]

An opinion by Julio R. Cordero at Clave Digital (spanish) writes about how various organizations - including IDEA, the IADB, and organizations from Spain, Holland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom - met with administrators from “Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic” to help improve political parties. Mr. Cordero writes that above all they need […]

The Central Electoral Authority in the Domincan Republic warned parties about beginning their campaigns before the official campaign period - a warning that some say is already too late for next year’s elections, writes Juan Bolívar Díaz at Hoy and Clave Digital (in Spanish), and also a factor for the rising cost of campaigns in the Dominican Republic. […]

The Dominican Today reports the public funding to be disbursed to parties for this year. I do not know the rule which determines the distribution of funds, but it seems that each of the parties that passed the 5% threshold in the 2006 legislative elections get equal amounts of funding - RD$6.6M each - even though […]