Súmate alerted that the vacancy of Tania D’Amelio has prevented an update day on the Electoral Registry, since the former rector was in charge of the National Electoral Board and the Civil and Electoral Registry Commission
The Civil Association Join He warned that the absolute absence of one of the rectors of the National Electoral Council (CNE), referring to the position of Tania D’Amelio -who rose to the Supreme Court of Justice as a magistrate- “deliberately” maintains the paralysis of the electoral entity for some time one year.
For the NGO, the delay has led to the “paralysis” of two subordinate bodies of which the former rector was a part: the National Electoral Board and the Civil and Electoral Registry Commission.
In this sense, it affirms that the new rector must be urgently appointed to assume the functions of the outgoing rector’s position, referred to the Civil and Electoral Registry Commission, so that the day of registration and updating of the Registry can take place. Electoral, as well as allowing eventual referendums to be organized.
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In his opinion, Súmate points out that it is not justified that after a year the vacancy left by D’Amelio has not yet been filled, the CNE board continues to function incompletely. For this reason, he assures that the Constitution and the laws establish the mechanisms to replace the absolute lack of a rector, which in this case would be the substitute rector Leonel Enrique Párica Hernández.
The organization, the civil association insisted, “must assume its competence as Electoral Power to designate him (Leonel Párica) in the position that corresponds to him constitutionally and legally as principal rector, replacing the former rector D’Amelio.”
Súmate’s position joins that held by the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory (OEV), which believes that this should be a simple procedure replacement, without the intervention of a public power fund or any authority. This is because the ex-principal rector maintains hers two alternate rectors of hers.
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In accordance with the Organic Law of Electoral Power (LOPE), the replacement should be automatic, without any additional decision having to be made.
Article 13 of the LOPE states the following:
“Each member of the National Electoral Council will have two alternates from the sector that nominated him or her and they will be numbered in ordinal sequence. The principals coming from applications made by civil society will be replaced in the following way: the first or first principal designated or appointed will have the first (1st) and second (2nd) substitutes; the second or second principal designated or designated will have the third (3rd) and fourth (4th) alternates; the third or third principal designated or designated will have the fifth (5th) and sixth (6th) alternates.
The substitutes will cover the temporary or absolute absences of the corresponding electoral rectors.
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