The TSE announced the official results, 4 days after postponing the closing of the final scrutiny for New Ideas claims.
The Supreme Electoral Court presented this Friday the final report of the results of the 2021 elections in which the representatives in the Parliament, Legislative Assembly and municipal councils for the period 2021-2024 were elected.
“We can rightly say that thanks to technology we were able to provide timely and accurate results, the trend did not change in terms of election results obtained in the final ballot,” said TSE President Dora Esmeralda Martinez de Barahona.
In addition, it was reported that the final scrutiny act and the decree of firm declaration will be published as ordered by the Electoral Code.
According to the electoral authority this was to the distribution of mayors obtained by parties: ARENA 34 mayorships; FMLN 30; WIN 27; PCN 14; PDC 3; ANEM 1; New Ideas 116.
The ones obtained by coalition are added: New Ideas-CD 23 mayorships; ARENA-PCN 1; New Ideas-WIN September; New Ideas-CD-WIN 1; New Ideas-PCN 1. New Ideas-PCN-WIN 2.
Meanwhile, the distribution of Central American Parliament by political party is as follows: New Ideas-CD 14 deputies; ARENA 3; FMLN 1; WIN 1; PCN 1; PDC 0.
The declaration came four days after it was suspended due to claims by the New Ideas party which pointed to the electoral body for allegedly removing 83 councilors from distribution by municipal councils.
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The presiding magistrate, Dora Martínez, pointed out at the time that New Ideas submitted a request for review in the allocation of seats in the municipal councils and that this request had to be resolved.
Martinez made reference to article 219 of the Electoral Code which establishes the rules to make the interpretation of how to assign the councilmen by council and is by virtue of this one that the corresponding revision would become.
“On some cases that they (New Ideas) are raising, we are getting to know them, inclusive, we are going to meet this afternoon to continue and decide what resolution we are going to issue,” Magistrate Noel Orellana said on Tuesday.
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NI’s claim is given by the way in which the number of councilors in each municipal council is distributed in accordance with the provisions of article 219 of the Electoral Code (EC).
In relation to this, the electoral expert Ruth Eleonora López said in an interview with TVX that “a change of this nature would require a reform approved by the Legislative Assembly”, despite the fact that the TSE is the highest instance in electoral matters, it is not up to him to amend the law.
On the other hand, Article 272 EC provides that actions for annulment of the final count may be brought before the Court by political parties within three days of being notified or published on the TSE website.
The court must give the final report 19 days after the commissions have been carried out in which it has indicated that a computer system was developed for the scrutiny of the Receiving Boards of Votes that allowed the development of a process. with “transparency”.