In the last few hours, the Colorado Party filed a complaint with the Electoral Court in which it asserts that the director of the BPS on behalf of the workers committed an “electoral crime.”
The Colorados affirm that Ruiz committed an “electoral crime” by participating “openly in the campaign in favor of the Yes in the referendum on the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), and spreading such participation in their networks.”
The Colorado Party claims that Ruiz violated article 77, numeral 4, of the Constitution of the Republic, which establishes that: “The judicial magistrates, the members of the Contentious-Administrative Court and the Court of Auditors, the Directors of the Autonomous Entities and Decentralized Services, active military personnel, whatever their rank, and police officers of any category, must refrain, under penalty of dismissal and disqualification for two to ten years from holding any public employment, from being part of political committees or clubs, to sign party manifestos, authorize the use of their name and, in general, carry out any other public or private act of a political nature, except voting. It will not be considered included in these prohibitions, the concurrence of the Directors of the Autonomous Entities and of the Decentralized Services to the organisms of the parties that have as a specific task the study of problems of government, legislation and administration”.
Campaign in favor of Yes
The Colorado Party details in its brief that “in the status of the WhatsApp social network of the director of the BPS you can see photographs of Ruiz actively participating in the electoral campaign for the ‘Yes’; as well as on the zonal page of the PIT-CNT on Facebook, a video is reproduced with the graphic of the campaign for the ‘Yes’ in which Ruíz calls to vote the pink ballot, in addition to having deliberately given interviews calling for the Yes».
