The EEC will go to the Legislature in search of $ 2 million to celebrate the special election of intriguers for the state

The State Commission of Elections (CEE) decided this Tuesday that it will go to the Legislative Assembly to request the bottoms for the event to celebrate the 16 of May in which 6 intriguers for estadidad will be chosen.

However, the figure to be requested has not yet been set, although the President of the EEC, Francisco Rosado Colomer, estimates that it can reach $ 2 million. However, Rosat Colomer warned that without the money, the EEC can not hold the special election.

“My budget chief is reconciling to see how much we can expect the event to cost if we don’t do manual scrutiny,” Rosado Colomer said in an interview with The New Day.

“The Commission does not have the funds to carry out the event. We have not yet reached the point of ‘I can no longer’. I have not reached the point, as they say in Castilla la Vella, of the file of I can continue to do tasks that do not involve the costs of the required funds, “he added.

The move of the EEC to go to the Legislature arises after last week the Fiscal Supervisory Board (JSF), On two occasions and by letter, he denied a $ 6.6 million allocation for the event and referred them to the House of Representatives to ask for the money.

While the clock was ticking, Rosat Colomer said that he did not know when he would formalize his order in the Chamber because during these days he must appear as a witness in court in the appeal lawsuit of the mayor of San Juan between Manuel Natal and Miguel Romero.

He explained that the amount of money needed for the special election can go down considerably because it would no longer be done using electronic balloting, which considerably goes down other items such as the cost of ballots. Law 167-20 enabling the special election required that there should be electronic scrutiny.

Rosado Colomer said he does not think he should go to the Legislature to amend the statute. “There is an article in the law that allows the EEC to handle the event to make it viable. Also, from my point of view, the laws cannot force the performance of something impossible,” he said. to say.

The draw has taken place

Today, Tuesday, the EEC held a draw for the positions on the ballot of the 10 aspirants for four positions to lobby in the Federal House and two in the United States Senate.

The draw was made in violation of the law because it had to be held last Monday. The same Monday, March 15, according to Law 167-20, the EEC had to receive the endorsements of the applicants and validate them.

“Just as the law cannot force the execution of impossible actions, it cannot be absurd and endorsements must be processed in order to certify candidates. There is no other way,” said Rosado Colomer to explain why they go do on Tuesday and not on March 15th.

The leading statesman Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer only handed over 24% of the endorsements to the EEC. But today he announced that he will continue in the contest as a candidate by direct nomination.

They managed to deliver the 3,000 endorsements required Zoraida Buxó, Víctor Pérez, Roberto López and Melinda Romero to lobby the Senate. They must appear in this order on the ballot. Meanwhile, Roberto Lefranc, Elizabeth Torres, Adriel Vélez, Maria “Mayita” Meléndez, Jorge Rodríguez and Ricardo Marrero handed over the endorsements in the face of their aspiration to lobby the House of Representatives. In the same order they will appear on the ballot.

In total, there were 15 aspirants for the election event.