the House of Representatives begin drafting a special commission to investigate the merits of the Eva Prats, Candidate of the Citizen Victory Movement by district 3, against the election of the new progressive Juan Oscar Morales.
The spokesman for most of the Democratic People’s Party, angel Matos, Clarified that while advisers to the President Rafael “Tatito” Hernandez are already working on the resolution needed to set up the special commission, the position of the chamber leadership is still waiting for the Court of San Juan express on the jurisdiction over the contestation of election.
Prats, in recent weeks, asked the superior judge Rebecca de León Rius to paralyze the judicial procedure he urged on January 14 to give way to a legislative investigation into the irregularities identified in the general scrutiny of the election by District 3 of St. John.
The Constitution, in Article 9 of section 3, provides that “each (legislative) chamber shall be the sole judge of the legal capacity of its members, of the validity of acts and of the scrutiny of its election.” , so that, according to Prats, it has jurisdiction in the first instance over the challenge to the certification of Morales, who officially passed it by 128 votes.
Given the result certified by the State Election Commission, Prats claims that 139 ballots were counted in advance in excess of the number of voters, that ballots were found in this category of voting without any duplication and that there were voters who cast their ballots. · Legally.
“We are giving deference to the courts to take care of this. That said, we began to study the possibility of preparing draft resolutions so that the court could resolve in favor of Eva, that the House meet, creating a special commission, the electoral claim that she against his colleague Juan Oscar Morales, which is a slightly different claim than has been the case in Manuel Natal i Miguel Romero (For the mayor of Sant Joan). Lawyers were told to prepare draft resolutions, “Matos told the media.
According to Matos, the special commission would be made up of representatives of all parties and, in essence, would function as a sort of scrutiny table in which the votes of this precinct of the capital are counted.
In his lawsuit before the courts, of which he submitted a copy to the House of Representatives, Prats requests that a new election be ordered in precinct 3, to consider that the alleged illegalities occurred make it impossible to determine with certainty the winning candidate.
“The commission should take custody of the controversial briefcases and the parties, with their election officials, recount, open each envelope and each unit. My interpretation of the controversy is that when (Prats) seeks redress in the House, it seeks peer processing, for the body to act on it, but the solution remains the same: counting votes, “Matos said.
“We are a filter commission, a new layer of trust in the remedy requested by the graduate Eva Prats. Ultranovel terrain,” said the popular representative.
How long could a resolution take in the event that the lower house assumes jurisdiction over the dispute? He asked. Subway.
“I dare not venture. But it will not end in 2021 without a solution,” said the majority spokesman, acknowledging that there is no recent comparative framework for the remedy sought by Prats.