This is how the Chamber resolved and calls on the TSE to take the necessary steps for the New Ideas party to fill the vacancy.
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) issued a resolution on Tuesday admitting the existing request for unconstitutionality and ordered as a preventive measure the suspension of the registration of the candidacy for deputy owner for the Legislative Assembly of Walter Araujo for New Ideas Party.
“Take the following precautionary measure: (i) Suspend the effects of the object of control so that the citizen Walter René Araujo Morales can not run for the position of Deputy Owner of the Legislative Assembly for the San Salvador Territorial District or any other for the New Ideas party, another political party or non-partisan deputy, during this process ”, it is shown in the resolution of the Chamber.
The Chamber also ordered the TSE to have ballots printed without any identifying information or images of Araujo, to prevent voters from making mistakes or confusion.
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In addition, it orders the Court to take the necessary decisions and measures for the New Ideas party to provide, in accordance with the law, the candidacy that will be vacant as a result of this resolution.
In the second part of the Chamber’s statement, it admitted the proceedings brought against the applicant in order to establish that the resolution issued by the TSE on 8 January, by which Araujo was registered as a candidate, infringed Article 126 of the Constitution.
In view of this, the Chamber stated “Because it is alleged that the EST did not document and verify its notorious honesty, because, among other things, there is an alleged pattern of aggressive and violent behavior against women in public spaces. and in social networks ”.
This resolution responds to a call by citizen Bertha Deleón, a lawyer and Nuestro Tiempo candidate for a seat in San Salvador. She denounced Araujo for expressing violence against women and, in this regard, there is an open case in the Specialized Chamber for a life without violence against women.
In filing the appeal, DeLeón argued that Araujo’s registration as a candidate violated Articles 126, 127 and 128 of the Constitution of the Republic.
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With regard to the last articles in question, which determine who cannot be Members because they are state contractors or other circumstances, the Chamber rejected these arguments. However, he accepted the request for Article 126, which deals with the candidate’s notorious lack of honor.
The applicant’s reaction
When the resolution was announced, lawyer De León expressed her satisfaction in her account on the social network Twitter, she published a video in which she emphasized that the resolution is a triumph in favor of women.
“This is a win for women! I encourage those who suffer violence or ill-treatment to denounce, to challenge the system and not to get bored of fighting, “he wrote in the publication.
East Division
Araujo’s registration caused division in the Court, as his situation delayed the printing of ballots for deputies by the Department of San Salvador.
Magistrate Noel Orellana said on Tuesday that there was a concern on the part of TSE magistrates about the hours of printing on ballots, “some of them are the criterion that you cannot print ballots in San Salvador until Sala fails (Araujo’s candidacy ”).
This was confirmed on January 22, by Magistrate Julio Olivo when he warned, “if the Chamber does not resolve this appeal of unconstitutionality or another appeal that may be submitted to it, the ballots will not be printed and without ballots there are elections in this country “.
The resolution of the Constitutional Chamber was signed by magistrates Carlos Sergio Avilés, Carlos Sánchez, Marina de Torrento and deputy magistrate Jorge Alfonso Quinteros.