The plenary session of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) will appear on Thursday before the bicameral commission that is studying the bill declaring the need to reform the Constitution, where it will establish its position on the relevance or not of the unification of elections, as proposed by the initiative presented by the Executive Branch.
“It is important that the members of the Central Electoral Board come to give their opinion because they are in charge of administering and executing the electoral process,” said Senator Pedro Catrain, president of the bicameral commission studying the bill.
Catrain said that the participation of the JCE, because the congressmen were already informed about the position of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on the matter.
While the meeting on Monday was attended by the President of the Senate of the Republic, Ricardo de los Santos, as an observer, he stressed that it is good that the bicameral commission is looking for ways to achieve the best constitutional body possible, listening to the points of view of different sectors.
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“I congratulate you for what has been a very fruitful day,” said De los Santos, adding that “it is good for democracy that more people and institutions get involved in these debates on the Constitutional Reform.”
At the fourth meeting of the bicameral commission, legislators heard from seven prominent jurists, experts in constitutional law, about the bill to reform the Constitution in several articles, presented by the Executive Branch to the National Congress.
On the first day of this Monday, constitutional lawyers Nassef Perdomo, Eduardo Jorge Prats and Jottin Cury spoke before the members of the Bicameral Commission, followed by Cristóbal Rodríguez, Olivo Rodríguez Huertas, Ricardo Rojas León and Miguel Valerio.
Lawyer Jottin Cury, a judge emeritus of the Constitutional Court, considered that a referendum should be called to make the changes and the unification of the elections should be the subject of a law.
This opinion was supported by Eduardo Jorge Prats, who maintained that the referendum is necessary for the constitutional reform to come into effect.
Meanwhile, the jurist Nassef Perdomo expressed his disagreement with the immobility of the Attorney General of the Republic, regardless of the time; and the jurist Miguel Valerio supports the reduction of the membership of deputies.
Constitutionalist Cristóbal Rodríguez believes that a referendum is not necessary for the constitutional amendment to come into effect, while jurists Ricardo Rojas León and Olivo Rodríguez Huertas see the immobility of the Attorney General of the Republic as a problem.
