The Supreme Electoral Court upheld the process of 100% of the acts. According to the TSE president, the results of the preliminary scrutiny were reaffirmed.
The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) confirmed that 100% of the minutes were processed and that the data released in the preliminary ballot where the New Ideas party has been consolidated as the one that received the most votes was confirmed. in the elections, and is left with a qualified majority in the Salvadoran Congress for the next legislature 2021-2024.
“As the trend consolidates, it is the party that has had the most votes, the most deputies and the trends did not change, the one of the preliminary scrutiny was almost consolidated,” said TSE President Dora Esmeralda Martínez.
TSE magistrate Guillermo Wellman said they are already in the process of drafting the final scrutiny report and assured that no later than Tuesday of the week they will be convening a press conference to give to know the consolidated.
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Yesterday, three tables were missing that were working during the morning, from the departments of La Unión, San Salvador and Sonsonate, with which the scrutiny was closed and which were entered into the system, said magistrates of the Court.
“The law states that for the closing of the ballot, to make the minutes must be done by a qualified majority, ie with four votes, this would be until next week, we will make a national chain that is possibly the Monday, “Martinez said.
He added that the TSE does not undertake to determine a day to release the minutes of the results of the final ballot, as it must be carefully reviewed in accordance with the election data, and then published and notify the political parties to allow the deadline for the body to receive the appeals for annulment, “if any of the political institutes has disagreement with the final scrutiny, the means of appeal are enabled as established by the electoral code “, he indicated.
Regarding the use of technological equipment in the next elections, the magistrate pointed out that every electoral process has flaws, which were resolved in this electoral process and that there are lessons learned in the elections of 28 February.
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“Every electoral process has its flaws. We will not say that we did not have incidents, you know the technological system as it was questioned and the flaws that we had to accept in public, but which were resolved by testing security codes, attack-proof on the day of the election event on February 28, in which we were working together with the technicians of the Cryptological Center (National) of Spain so that we would not have cyber attacks “, he explained .
He added that it was transcendental advances that the TSE has had in implementing the technology and that in electoral matters it has been recognized at the level of Latin America, where also international observers, who were vigilant of the electoral process, also they pointed out the importance of modernizing the electoral process.
“There are many challenges. The system needs maturity in the next elections in 2024, there is a lot of work to be done, the vote is coming abroad as well and a system must be designed where there are no delays and which is it fulfills the dream of Salvadoran compatriots who are in different countries who can vote, “said Martínez.
TSE magistrate Noel Orellana confirmed that since yesterday they were working on the minutes and the decree of the final scrutiny, “I think that as a Supreme Electoral Court we will give a joint position precisely to share with the media of communication (the results) “, he indicated.
He said they have done a quick analysis of the results of the final scrutiny and the development of the election process, “we will later do a study to strengthen what worked, and improve what may not have worked as we had. projected “, expressed.
He added that as in any process there are sectors that observed that the electoral process and the implementation of technology for the elections worked, but there will be other voices pointing to the opposite.
“We as an institution will take into account everything good, everything that comes to contribute, to strengthen future electoral processes,” said the official.
He also commented that the magistrates have read reports issued by international bodies on the development of the electoral process and the preliminary and final scrutinies, which are positive for the TSE, as they recognize the transparency and work of the body. .
“With great humility we may take them as the Supreme Electoral Court, but it is with great joy and joy that institutions such as the (National) Cryptological Institute of Spain, the OAS itself recognize the work, the transparency with which the Supreme Electoral Court acted, “he said.
Orellana explained that the Office of the Attorney General for the Defense of Human Rights also acknowledged the transparency of the electoral process by the TSE.
He added that there has been criticism of the time it has taken the Court to announce the results, but acknowledges that there has been hard work on the tables to end the count as soon as possible, “for the first time perhaps in in the last six elections, one hundred percent of the votes have been counted, that is to say, the will of all those Salvadorans who went out to vote has been explained and respected. “