State authorities were rarely seen or heard publicly announcing that they would break the law; This is what the authorities of the National Electoral Council, CNE, did by declaring null and void the telematic votes of Ecuadorians living abroad and called new ones, this time in person, on a date different from the one established by law.
Three sources are looking to take over the cancellation of the telematic voting abroad of representatives and representatives of migrants
Due to incompetence or what I know, the August 20 telematic voting for president, vice president, legislators was a failure, according to the CNE itself, and the amendment for its own mistake is to declare the nullity of those elections; and nothing better came to their mind than to call – I insist – new elections abroad, this time in person and on the same date when the second round should be held.
What has been established is that the election of representatives takes place in the first round and this cannot be changed except by law.
ECA has the final say
The State Attorney’s Office must act coercively and immediately open a criminal investigation. It is true that it is necessary to avoid the interruption of the electoral process, but this does not prevent the initiation of appropriate investigations.
Perhaps the members of the HNE are considered untouchable due to the existing legislation that favors them during the election period, but this is not the case, because this protection is temporary, for the duration of the election process. No one is above the law. It is up to the National Assembly to judge HNE members for political responsibility, and the State Attorney’s Office to investigate and possibly prosecute criminal offences.
The State Electoral Council, without a renewal date for its members, has been extended to 21 months and with the threat of a new political trial
The aphorism “recognition of honor, relief of evidence” fits very well here. To cover up its monstrous failure to contract and implement telematic voting, the CNE decided to commit a crime. It is to be expected that his superior, the Civil Court, will withdraw the calling of new elections abroad, which was directed by the CNE.
The court will not escape from the fact that there is no express norm on which the declaration of these votes is based. Let the CNE be reminded that ignorance of the law does not justify breaking it. The application of this two-round electoral system, called balotage, lasts barely two weeks in France when there is no winner in the first round. In the last elections, the first round was held on April 10, and the second on April 24. Here, due to the inefficiency or calculation of the CNE, the first round was held on August 20, and the second is scheduled for October 15! Almost two months in which the country lives in uncertainty.
Any party or candidate has the right to take legal action because of what happened with telematic voting, says Enrique Pita, vice president of the CNE
Deadlines are important in all spheres of life, private and public. Here, the Constitutional Court takes ten years to approve consultations on YasunÃ, when exploitation is ongoing. Residents of the area began de facto measures to prevent the well from being closed. Will they suppress the population, uncontacted peoples, will blood flow? For mining, consultation was done in Quito; for oil, all over the country. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso
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