The Provincial Electoral Board had disqualified three lists and had scheduled the process for Tuesday 28.
In Resolution 006 issued by the National Electoral Commission it is argued that the seven candidate lists are maintained and that the resolutions issued by the Provincial Electoral Board of the Guayas nucleus (JPE) December 20 are extemporaneous. “They do not respect the electoral schedule or the regulations regarding the phases of pronouncement of the aforementioned Board” read in the document, which at the same time indicates that the phase of resolution of the challenges of the candidacies was on November 15 and 16 of the current year.
In the House of Culture of Guayas there are no obstacles, everything is consulted, says Miguel Palacios about the electoral process
“Since the National Electoral Commission, in use of the powers attributed to it in article 41 of the Regulations for the election, issued the resolution whose ruling is considered to be last and final instance, resolved and notified in the terms provided to approve the registered lists (seven), it is not possible to issue extemporaneous resolutions that contradict what was resolved by the National Electoral Commission ”, details the official letter issued yesterday afternoon by the commission led by the president Erika Paola Zambrano Jeria.
In the same document, it states that the commission had already reviewed all the documentation for the registration of candidacies in November of the current year and that “He did not find elements for the disqualification of the candidacies.”
This is how, in accordance with the office, the candidacies of Luis Fernando Naranjo Espinoza, Andrea Crespo Granda and Érmel Aguirre, that they had been disqualified by the Provincial Electoral Board, led by President Miguel Palacios Frugone. These candidacies would be added to those of Martha Rizzo González, Miguel Cantos Díaz, Ibsen Hernández Valencia and Virgilio Aray Valverde.
Crespo considered that the disqualification from his list was an “arbitrary and illegal” decision, that “it does not respond to the democratic interests of the voting process ”. His list had been rejected based on article 12 of the Organic Law of Public Service that prohibits moonlighting in public office, however, the same article indicates that teachers of universities and public polytechnic schools and teachers are exempt from this prohibition. private.
“We have all the conditions and we have met all the mechanisms to be there, so why are they preventing this candidacy, which is a feminist candidacy, which is a candidacy that has been marked against patriarchal practices, which is a very critical candidacy to processes that have hijacked culture, that is why we have received very frontal attacks ”, expresses the writer and teacher of UArtes.
He points out that the Provincial Board has never communicated with them officially, and with other lists it has. “That is why this is directed (…). In fact, the Provincial Board cannot issue notifications or resolutions in all these days, since it did not notify the candidates of the schedule, it is acting in a murky way, without following due process ”, dice.
While Naranjo defends being legally registered as a candidate. “I believe that the Provincial Board of the House of Culture has made a mistake by disqualifying the lists that are involved”, He points out.
He considers that this entire electoral process that should have been concluded on October 20 is behind people who are acting in his favor. “I think it is a question of numbers. If there are fewer candidacies, surely there will be someone who is making calculations that those eventual voters can move towards other candidacies. It does not occur to me that there will be another reason ”, details.
The former director of the Casa de la Cultura nucleus of Guayas, who is up for re-election, defines it as an intense campaign. “As a candidate I perceive that there is a silence on the part of the Provincial Board that must be resolved immediately because if there will not always be room for rumors and rumors are unfriendly, they create an environment that is the complete opposite of transparency”, think.
For his part, Aguirre, other of the disputed lists, emphasized that his candidacy remains firm. “The Provincial Board is a lower body, the National Electoral Board (National Electoral Commission) is higher, and they have already annulled the resolution of the Provincial Electoral Board”, he stressed.
In this way, and according to what is stated in the document, the Provincial Electoral Board must resume the order of the schedule, send the full names of the candidates to the CCE to print the ballots. Directors of the Cceng and their photography, as well as the full names of the candidates for main and alternate members of each of the lists.
Elections for January 12
The National Electoral Commission in its Resolution 005, issued this Tuesday, detailed the election schedule that it says must be followed by the Provincial Electoral Board. This indicates that the election campaign and public debate will be held on January 3, 2022; while the elections of the provincial directory, the scrutiny and the proclamation of results will be the 12th of January. In this way, the The new board of directors would be positioned on January 14, 2022.
This new pronouncement discards the date announced yesterday by Palacios (JPE) to this newspaper, who indicated that the elections would be on December 28.
The elections will take place in the facilities of the Provincial Electoral Council of Guayas since the Guayas-CCE provincial nucleus, “Unfortunately, it does not have the corresponding permits required by the Municipality, as it has not updated the Fire Department permits, operations plan, insurance policies, among others in recent years.”, pick up the trade.
For the third time, the members of the RUAC could not exercise their right to vote, last Thursday, December 9, 2021, since the elections were suspended for not complying with the aforementioned requirements and protocols. (I)
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