The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) admitted this Friday the unconstitutional omission by the National Assembly (AN) in contempt, in the designation of the members of the National Electoral Council (CNE), also, applied articles of the Law Organic of Electoral Processes and ordered to assume the normative development to the National Electoral Council.
This is indicated in judgment No. 0068-2020, with a joint presentation by the Magistrates who make up the aforementioned High Court Chamber, in which it declared itself competent to hear and resolve the claim for legislative omission of the National Assembly in contempt, raised by citizens Javier Bertucci, Claudio Fermín, Timoteo Zambrano, Felipe Mujica, Luis Romero, Rafael Marín, Juan Alvarado and Segundo Meléndez, assisted by lawyer Francisco Matheus.
The Constitutional Chamber of the TSJ ordered the CNE to adapt the electoral regulations for the election of indigenous deputies respecting their traditions and customs.
The decision was made after this Thursday a group of opposition political parties requested before the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to declare the legislative omission and appoint new rectors of the National Electoral Council (CNE), in order that the planned legislative elections can be held this year.
With press information from the TSJ.
