The resolution of the Chamber leaves Araujo out of the legislative elections of 28 February.
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) ruled on Tuesday that Walter Araujo cannot be registered as a candidate for deputy for San Salvador by the New Ideas party.
The resolution also orders the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) not to include any data or images of the applicant on the ballot papers, to prevent voters from making mistakes or confusion. He will also have to take “the necessary decisions and measures” for the New Ideas party to fill the space from the candidate for deputy for San Salvador that is empty as a result of the precautionary measure.
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“The following precautionary measure is adopted: (i) Suspend the effects of the object of control, so that the citizen Walter René Araujo Morales will not be able to choose the position of deputy owner of the Legislative Assembly for the territorial circumscription of San Salvador or any other for the New Ideas party, another political party or non-partisan deputy, for the duration of this process, “says the resolution of the Chamber, in response to a lawsuit for unconstitutionality filed by citizen Bertha DeLeon.
The lawyer, also a candidate for deputy for San Salvador of the party Our Time, presented the lawsuit of unconstitutionality to the candidacy of Araujo to consider that it did not comply with the requirements of notorious honesty to be a candidate for public office stipulated in Article 126 of the Constitution of the Republic, and that the TSE had not resolved on the appeal it had previously filed.
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De León argued that registering Araujo further violates Articles 127 and 128 of the Constitution. On the last articles in question, which set out who cannot be deputies for being state contractors or other circumstances, the Chamber rejected these arguments. However, he admitted the claim for 126, which deals with the candidate’s notorious lack of honor.