Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
With opposition from the National Party and five days before the primaries are held, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has decided to print a special booklet so that the 500,000 people who are not on the electoral roll can vote next Sunday.
Ana Paola Hall, presiding counselor of the CNE, On March 5, he presented a proposal to include additional booklets in the election bag, listing the identified people who would be having trouble voting this Sunday.
The initiative was not approved because Kelvin Aguirre, National Party representative, and the other two deputies have covid, and had not signed the resolution to resolve the crisis.
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However, it emerged last night that at the behest of Hall and with the support of Rixi Moncada, it had been decided to print the special list so that the half million voters included in the voter rolls could vote.
By knowing the information, Kilvett Zabdiel Anduray, executive secretary of the National party, He said on his Twitter account: “A new illegality has been committed in the National Electoral Council, by the representatives of Libre and the Liberal Party, who have sent to print an additional ballot book that has not been approved by plenary, because it has been called until tomorrow (today) at 9.00 am ”.
Kilvett added, “If this illegality continues and generates a booklet that opens up the possibility of a double and even sixfold vote on March 14, the National Party will take legal action. The CNE is a collegiate body and not someone’s backyard ”.
Why aren’t they in the census?
CNE adviser Rixi Moncada said that if this problem is not resolved, the fundamental right of nearly half a million Hondurans to exercise the right to vote will be violated.
Moncada explained that they identified three groups with voice problems. The first was a block of 54,000 voters who were people who turned out to be deadlocks when verifying their photo in the database. This was resolved, but they were not within the listed to vote.
Moncada added that in the second group there were 100,000 people who could not vote despite their ID card because they registered after December 30.
In the last block, it is estimated that of the 1.6 million Hondurans whose voting center was changed by the National Registry of People (RNP) Identify yourself program, 350,000 of the 800 communities were excluded from the electoral roll because no corrections were made . , according to the detailed counselor.
Moncada explained that on February 22, the RNP acknowledged its mistakes, for which they recommended that the electoral body include additional lists to ensure citizens’ exercise of the right to vote.
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Keys in the National Electoral Council 1. Census The RNP national census posed problems with 1.6 million Hondurans whose voting center was changed, in addition to inconsistencies in verifying the data and the lack of many who could enroll after December 30. 2. Dialogue The CNE Presidency suggested creating additional booklets to allow those not included in the census to exercise the right to vote. However, three CNE councilors, a head and two deputies, are covid and have been unable to sign the resolution 3. Proposal The CNE sent an initiative to the National Congress to pass an emergency decree so that the plenary can be integrated with another mechanism and thus solve the problem of violating the right to vote five days before the elections are held. |
The CNE councilor said she supports the initiative promoted by Ana Paola Hall, because they are in time to include the lists imposed by the RNP in the election bags.
Another alternative proposed by the president of the CNE is to ask the National Congress for help to integrate the plenary of this body.
On Sunday, Hall reported that he has asked for help so that an emergency decree can be enacted so that the CNE can integrate a plenary session with another mechanism.
Booklets, the solution
Augusto Aguilar, former president of the former Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), believes that the solution of the extra booklets or lists is healthy.
The former magistrate said the deadlock five days before the elections is unprecedented, as problems are usually resolved through consensus and council members’ analysis.
“It seems to me that the proposal is healthy, the double vote is not as dramatic as people think as there are mechanisms such as indelible ink to prevent someone from voting twice on the same election day”, Aguilar said.
He also warned that if this issue is not resolved there will be a massive abstinence, already foreseen by the pandemic and the economic situation, but which will be even greater as distrust builds and there will be endless claims and post-election challenges.
The former president of the TSE also pointed out that the main responsibility for the problem lies in the way the Registry worked, as they promised a sophisticated census in a few months from the start, a situation that was almost impossible, ‘because it Identifying a country with the problem of the deceased and those living abroad cannot take months, at least it takes two years, ”he noted.
In addition, he recalled that the law stipulates that the RNP is the one who provides the information to the electoral body to update or clear the census, but if the information provided from the outset causes problems, the CNE will not be able to perform proper purification.
On the other hand, Roberto Herrera Cáceres, Former head of the National Commissioner for Human Rights (Conadeh) urged CNE advisers to find a solution in the coming hours to the current emergency or crisis causing uncertainty and distrust in the population.
Herrera advised that, aside from the partisan positions, incumbent members of the state’s electoral bodies should respect and submit to the rule of law.
“They must be subordinate to the authority of the constitution and the laws,” noted Herrera Cáceres.
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