The House resolution leaves Araujo out of the February 28 legislative elections.
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) ruled on Tuesday that Walter Araujo cannot be registered as a candidate for deputy for San Salvador by the New Ideas party.
The resolution also orders the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) not to show any information or images of the applicant on the ballot papers, in order to prevent voters from making mistakes or confusion. It must also take the “necessary decisions and measures” so that the New Ideas party fills the space for the candidate for deputy for San Salvador, who is left vacant as a result of the precautionary measure.
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“Take the following precautionary measure: (i) Suspend the effects of the object of control so that the citizen Walter René Araujo Morales cannot elect the position of Deputy Owner of the Legislative Assembly for the San Salvador Territorial District or another for the New Ideas party, another political party or deputy non-partisan, during this process ”, is shown in the resolution of the Chamber, in response to a request for unconstitutionality presented by the citizen Bertha Deleón.
The lawyer, also a candidate for deputy for San Salvador of the Nuestro Tiempo party, presented the claim of unconstitutionality to Araujo’s candidacy, considering that it did not comply with the requirements of a notorious honesty to be a candidate for public office provided in article 126 of the constitution Republic and that the EST did not rule on the appeal it had previously filed.
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De León claimed that Araujo’s registration also violated Articles 127 and 128 of the Constitution. 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 admitted the request for 126, which deals with the candidate’s notorious lack of honor.