November 18, 2022, 9:50 AM
November 18, 2022, 9:50 AM
The Santa Cruz Departmental Electoral Tribunal (TED) considers it unlikely to apply the results of the Population and Housing Census before the 2025 general elections. This is because there is already an electoral calendar that is being worked on and there are other activities in progressFor example, the judicial elections, the primaries and even the general elections themselves.
Saúl Paniagua, member of the Departmental Electoral Tribunal (TED), indicated that there is a sequential work, since the Census has a purpose (distribution of resources, of seats) and the power of this work rests with the Electoral Body. “This is not an exclusive attribution of the Executive Branch,” she remarked.
In principle, the Government assured that the results would be in December 2024; However, on Thursday the president of the Supreme Court of Justice indicated that time is not enough and that the data must be sent to them until September 2024 to apply them to the 2025 elections
Paniagua explained that “the Executive Power does not have electoral power, so when they announced the official data for December 2024, the Electoral Body reacted and said that it was impossible, because theIn September of that year, primary elections will be called, in January 2025 it is expected to hold the primaries (in the previous elections it was not done for an extraordinary issue); that in 120 days they must be summoned. Then there is the call for general elections, then there are those elections in September, in October (of that same year) the possible second round and November the inauguration of the new president of the State”.
On Thursday, the president the president of the Electoral Body, Óscar Hassenteufel, assured that “ideally” the census data should be available one year before the national election; that is, by September 2024.
This revelation rescinds the Government’s offer to provide data on census activity until December 2024, with the purpose that the application is carried out before the general elections.
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