According to EST magistrates, there are no candidates who are at risk, as the registration process has already ended, just waiting for the replacement of Walter Araujo.
The magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) pointed out that the time for submitting appeals against the candidacies had expired and also said that they did not recognize the appeal presented by the Minister of Labor Rolando Castro against the candidacies of Ernesto Muyshondt and Roberto d’Aubuisson.
Magistrate Julio Olivo said on Thursday that “the deadline for registration of the other forms has already expired and any writ, which is filed, any resource is untimely and therefore inadmissible.”
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Olivo argued that the Electoral Code gives 24 hours after the registration of a form to file an appeal for annulment and that, if the 24 hours have already passed, he has no reason to be and could be seen as a propaganda issue.
In this regard, Magistrate Guillermo Wellman said that he does not know about this resource, “as an electoral judge I still do not know about that situation, I know that the media said he will file an appeal, but as a colleague I still do not know, I’m not sure if something was presented or not.
Judge Wellman also reminded that, in any case, if there are candidacies for municipal councils, they should have been submitted to the Departmental Electoral Council (JED).
For her part, the presiding magistrate, Dora Esmeralda Barahona, mentioned that the law clarifies the time when an appeal must be filed to cancel a candidacy and denied that she knows, “my person has not yet had the opportunity to see the brief and what is the request, the request will be analyzed and will be solved according to the corresponding law in the Collegiate Body ”.
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Regarding the registration of candidates Ernesto Muyshondt and Roberto d’Aubuisson, the magistrate said that they are already registered, “they have been registered, so far we have no appeal that has been filed previously regarding the cancellation of these persons or the contestation of the registration “.
When I asked Judge Noel Orellana if there was any candidacy that was in danger, he replied: “No, at TSE we have already completed the registration process and we are waiting for Walter Araujo’s candidacy to be replaced by the party. New ideas and proceed to print ballot papers in the department of San Salvador ”.