a department of Paraguay calls for elections on January 1

a department of Paraguay calls for elections on January 1

Specifically, there is a big scheduling problem because there are few dates available: on December 18 there will be national interns and on the 25th it is Christmas. “We had no other way out than to establish the simultaneous internal elections on November 20 and January 1, 2023 for the elections for governor, we adjust to the deadlines established by the Electoral Code and the National Constitution,” said Christian Ruiz Díaz, director of Political Financing of the TSJE.

“The Constitution establishes the deadlines”

“We tried, but we cannot get out of what the law establishes for us, now they challenge us because we put on January 1, then they will challenge us if we put on later,” he added. “We dimensioned the blow, but what is the way out? The National Constitution itself establishes the deadlines. Yes or yes it has to be a Sunday, by rule of law“, narrowed.

After the controversy broke out, two of the three members of the Court, Jaime Bestard and César Rossel, sent the president of the Senate, Óscar Salomón, a bill that proposes to temporarily suspend a paragraph of article 154 of the Electoral Code, which establishes electoral deadlines when an authority is dismissed.

So, they proposed an eight-day extension to rescind the resolution that called for elections on January 1.

Source: Ambito

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