The candidate claims that Araujo does not meet the requirement of a notorious morality required by the Constitution.
Nuestro Tiempo’s lawyer and candidate Bertha María Deleón has filed a lawsuit against Walter Araujo’s candidacy for Nuevas Ideas, as the Supreme Electoral Court has not yet ruled on her challenge.
“I think the magistrates who registered Walter did not properly assess Article 126 of the Constitution which regulates the requirements to be a deputy and which establishes notorious honesty as one of the requirements,” he said.
The lawyer announced that she filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Chamber of the SCJ because, in her opinion, the candidate for New Ideas does not meet one of the requirements established in the Constitution and, therefore, requests the cancellation of the candidacy.
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He also explained that his statement is based on the criteria confirmed by the Constitutional Chamber on one of the parameters for assessing this requirement.
“The Chamber said that one of these is, whether or not the person complies with judicial decisions, then I base my argument that, since July 2020, the specialized judge for a life without violence against women has granted me protective measures, which is judicial measures and he is obliged to respect them, but he did not respect them because he continues to attack me on Twitter and he always mentions and harasses me “, he denounced.
In the afternoon, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) magistrate Guillermo Wellman stated that the cancellation appeals filed against the candidate for the position of deputy for New Ideas, Walter Araujo, were still under study and a decision was being resolved in this regard. , but on the night Magistrate Noel Orellana said the challenge did not continue.
“In Mr. Araujo’s case, the resources are under study, whether they are resolved or not, I can’t tell you anything else,” Judge Guillermo Wellman said, suggesting that the registration was with three votes and not four, which is unfair.
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Judge Wellman based his position on this case on the basis of Article 64 of the Electoral Code, as the literal number “A” 5 of that article states that it is up to the TSE, by agreement of a qualified majority of magistrates, to know and to resolve all kinds of actions, exceptions and requests.
The magistrate stressed that the application for registration is an application and an action that the political parties carry out in court, therefore it is solved with four votes.
The presiding magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Dora Esmeralda de Barahona, said that TSE had not yet notified the parties to the proceedings of Araujo’s registration and, with regard to De León’s trial, said that “as a lawyer he has perception and it will be the relevant courts that will resolve this ”.