The president of the Pro Santa Cruz Committee, Stello Cochamanidis, spoke regarding electoral coercion allegations about public officials who would be pressed to vote for certain candidates In this Sunday’s elections. The civic leader He pointed out that they received complaints regarding it and requested that the voters suffrage be respected.
“All bosses and public officials have arrived in some way complaints, do not force people to vote for someone, Do not blackmail the officials with the jobs if you do not vote for the one you want”, Said Cochamanidis.
The Civic President also addressed the voters and remarked that they must vote freely in an election to which he described as transcendentals for the future of the country.
In recent days, several complaints arose regarding electoral coercion about public officials and Violation of the secret vote, which in some cases would even reach third parties.
This Saturday, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) He urged that people do not behave a mobile phone to pay this Sunday. The electoral entity issued an instruction in which it requested the departmental electoral courts to communicate to the jurors, notaries and electoral personnel that It is not allowed to enter the electoral enclosure carrying cell phones with camera.
Article 238 of Law 026 establishes that: “The public servant or the electoral, police, military or private person servant who coacciates, Attentive or exercise violence against subordinates of their dependence or any citizen, so that they join a certain political organization or vote for a certain candidacy in an electoral process or option in a referendum or revocation of mandate, it will be sanctioned or sanctioned with Privative penalty of one (1) to three (3) years”
In addition, it establishes that If the author or author were a public official or public official, he will be sanctioned or sanctioned with the dismissal of the position, without being able to exercise another public function for a time of three (3) years.
