The agency explained that it opened the Voting Boards to look for 33 acts that were missing so that they could be scrutinized and end the process.
The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) reported that the final scrutiny is over and that 100% of the acts are scrutinized, the body’s president, Dora Esmeralda Martínez, said last night.
“We want to inform them that we have finished, one hundred percent of the acts are scrutinized. And we also want to inform the population that as the Supreme Electoral Court we are honored to inform this great milestone because if they follow the background that the court has now for now we have fulfilled the population, “said Martinez.
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He stressed that the technology used for the elections for the first time “came to strengthen democracy. We have shown that the just will of the citizens has been respected, this vote that was given on February 28 is has respected and shows of this is the trend of the winning party, ”the TSE president said.
He added that this trend was maintained in the results of the final scrutiny.
He also explained that the Court was pending to look for 33 acts in electoral packages of Voting Boards (JRV), so last Wednesday at 10:00 pm the magistrates met to make a decision based on the transparency of the ‘process, and defined looking for JRVs they had not scrutinized.
The magistrates had stated yesterday that the 33 acts belonging to the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) and municipal councils, would not change the results of the final scrutiny.
“Having the legality of an electoral process we went to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), Electoral Surveillance Board which is the one that supports the (political) institutes contending in these elections which were 10 and we decided to bring these packages at the headquarters where we are conducting the final scrutiny, “the TSE president explained.
The final scrutiny process was fraught with several incidents that affected the development of the same, even delaying it. Photo: EDH / Francisco Rubio
He added that 30 JRVs were reviewed to look for the records, which were subsequently scrutinized, to have 100% of the records.
“It would be necessary to complete (the final scrutiny) the consolidation by the departments and introduce these acts that were scrutinized today (yesterday) in the system. Two departments were already consolidated, two remain, which in the course of tomorrow they are going to be realized and later we would be raising a preliminary statistic to be able to inform the population as it is the statistic with respect to municipal councils, Legislative Assembly and Central American Parliament “, said Martinez.
Magistrates gave a press conference last night to report on the end of the scrutiny. Photo Courtesy TSE
He added that with the end of the process they are complying with the agility that they proposed to exercise by the election, and give the data as appropriate. He said that on Monday they will be announcing the final scrutiny report, “because it is necessary to make a review, it is necessary to ascertain all the data that remained in the trends and also clarify that with this scrutiny that was now carried out the trends have been maintained, the trends did not tend to vary either in municipal councils, or in Parliament (Central American), or in provincial councils, they remain as has been reported “, he explained.
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According to the TSE, the results for the Legislative Assembly are as follows: The New Ideas party with 46 deputies, the New Ideas coalition with WIN, 10 deputies; ARENA with 9 deputies, FMLN with 4 deputies, WIN with 5 deputies, the ARENA coalition with DS, 4 deputies, the PCN party with a deputy, the PDC party with a deputy, Our Time with a deputy, WE go with a deputy, the PCN coalition with DS with a deputy and the ARENA coalition with PCN with a deputy.
TSE magistrate Noel Orellana posted on social media that the final ballot leaves 54 deputies elected by quotient and 30 by waste.
He reported that after the phase where the minutes are published and the results of the final scrutiny are announced, the right of political parties to submit appeals for annulment begins, during the following days to report the result in firm of the elections.