According to the TSE magistrates there are no candidates who are at risk for which they have already completed the registration process, they are just waiting for the replacement of Walter Araujo.
The magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) point out that time has run out to file appeals against candidacies and also said they are unaware of the appeal filed by Labor Minister Rolando Castro against the candidacies of Ernesto Muyshondt and Roberto d’Aubuisson.
Magistrate Julio Olivera stated on Thursday that “the deadline for registration of the other sheets has already expired and any writ, which is filed, any appeal is untimely and therefore inappropriate.”
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Olivera argued that the Electoral Code gives 24 hours after a template has been registered to file the appeal for annulment, and that if 24 hours have already passed it has no reason to be and could be seen as a properly propagandistic issue.
In the question, the magistrate Guillermo Wellman said not knowing this resource, “I as electoral judge still do not know of this situation I know that in mass media it has been said that it interposed an resource but like collegiate still we don’t know him, I’m not sure if something has been submitted to TSE or not “.
Magistrate Wellman further recalled that in any case if they are Municipal Council candidacies they should have been presented to the Departmental Electoral Board (JED).
For her part, the presiding magistrate, Dora Esmeralda Barahona mentioned that the law makes clear the time in which an appeal must be filed to annul a candidacy and denied knowing it, “my person has not yet he has had the opportunity to see the writ and what the petition is, the petition is going to be analyzed and resolved in accordance with the corresponding law in the Collegiate Body. “
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On the registration of candidates Ernesto Muyshondt and Roberto d’Aubuisson the magistrate stated that they are already registered, “they have been registered, we so far do not have an appeal that has been filed previously regarding the cancellation of such persons or contestation of the registration “.
When asked by magistrate Noel Orellana if there is any candidacy that is at risk, he replied, “no, in the TSE we have already completed the registration processes and we are waiting for the replacement of the candidacy. of Walter Araujo for the New Ideas party and we proceed to the printing of ballots from the department of San Salvador “.