Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
With the opposition of the National Party and five days before the primary elections, the National Electoral Council (CNE) decided to print a special brochure so that the 500,000 people who are outside the electoral list can vote this Sunday.
Sala Ana Paola, Adviser to the President of the NEC, On March 5, he presented a proposal to include additional brochures in the ballot boxes, including people who have been identified and who would have trouble voting this Sunday.
The initiative had not been approved because Kelvin Aguirre, representative of the National Party, and the other two deputies complained and did not sign the resolution to resolve the crisis.
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However, last night it emerged that, by order of Hall and with the support of Rixi Moncada, it was decided to print the special list, so that half a million voters who left the electoral list could vote.
Knowing the information, Kilvett Zabdiel Anduray, executive secretary at National Party, He said on his Twitter account: “A new illegality has been committed in the National Electoral Council, by the representatives Libre and the Liberal Party, who sent to print an additional ballot paper that was not approved by the plenary session, because it was convened until tomorrow (today) at 9:00 ”.
Kilvett added: “If this illegality persists and generates a pamphlet that opens the possibility of a double vote and even six times on March 14, the National Party will take legal action. CNE is a collegial body and not anyone’s court “.
Why I’m out of the census
Rixi Moncada, a CNE adviser, said that if this issue is not resolved, the fundamental right of nearly half a million Hondurans to vote will be violated.
Moncada explained that they identified three groups with voting problems. The first was a block of 54,000 voters, who were people who turned out to be deadlocked when they checked their photo in the database. This was fixed, but was not in listed to vote.
Moncada added that in the second group were 100,000 people who also could not vote despite having their ID card because they registered after December 30.
In the last block, it is estimated that out of the 1.6 million Hondurans whose voting centers were changed through the Identify yourself program from the National Register of Persons (RNP), 350,000 out of 800 communities were left out of the electoral list because no corrections were made, according to the counselor’s detail.
Moncada explained that on February 22, the RNP acknowledged its mistakes, for which they recommended that the electoral body include additional lists to guarantee the exercise of the right to vote by citizens.
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Keys in the National Electoral Council 1. Census The national census issued by RNP presented problems with 1.6 million Hondurans whose voting center was changed, in addition to inconsistencies in data verification and the lack of many who could register by December 30. 2. Dialogue The CNE presidency proposed the preparation of additional brochures so that those who are not included in the census can vote. However, three CNE councilors, a chief and two deputies, were convinced and could not sign the resolution. 3. Proposal The NEC submitted to the National Congress an initiative to approve an emergency decree, so that the plenary session can be integrated with another mechanism and thus resolve the issue that violates the right to vote five days before the elections. |
The NPP councilor expressed that he supports the initiative promoted by Sala Ana Paola, as they are in time to include the lists dictated by the RNP in the electoral bags.
Another alternative proposed by the president of CNE is to ask the National Congress for help for the integration of the plenary session of this body.
Last Sunday, Hall reported that he had asked for help in order to be able to issue an emergency decree, so that the CNE could integrate a plenary session with another mechanism.
Brochures, the solution
Augusto Aguilar, former president of the former Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), believes the solution to the brochures or supplementary lists is sound.
The former magistrate expressed that the stalemate five days before the elections is unprecedented, because, in general, the problems are solved by consensus and the analysis of the councilors.
“It seems to me that the proposal is sound, the double vote is not as dramatic as it is thought, because there are mechanisms such as indelible ink to prevent a person from voting twice on the same election day.” Aguilar said.
He also warned that if this issue is not resolved, there will be a huge abstention, which was already predicted by the pandemic and the economic situation, but which will be even greater, as distrust will increase and there will be endless demands. and challenges after the election.
The former president of the TSE also stressed that the biggest responsibility for the problem lies in the way the Register works, because from the beginning they promised a refined census in a few months, a situation that was almost impossible, “because identifying a country with the problem of the deceased and those living abroad can not be done in months, that lasts at least two years “, he commented.
In addition, he recalled that the law stipulates that the RNP is the one that provides information for the electoral body to update or purge the census, but if the information provided from the beginning has problems, then the CNE will not be able to perform a good purification.
On the other hand, Roberto Herrera Cáceres, The former head of the national commissioner for human rights (Conadeh), urged CNE councilors to resolve in the next few hours the current situation of emergency or crisis that generates uncertainty and mistrust in the population.
Herrera recommended that beyond the positions of the partisans, the officials of the state electoral bodies should respect and obey the rule of law.
“They must be subordinated to the authority of the Constitution and the laws,” Herrera Cáceres stressed.
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