The National Election Jury (JNE) recalled that candidates who during the campaign give gifts such as money, food, medicine, water, construction materials or other objects of an economic nature, may be sanctioned, even with the exclusion of the Regional and Municipal Elections on October 2.
The electoral body explained that this is stipulated in the regulation for the control and sanctioning procedure on prohibited conduct in electoral propaganda, which was approved by the plenary session of the JNE in December 2021.
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In this sense, the norm establishes that the Special Electoral Jury (JEE) is in charge of initiating an investigation of a case of gifts and, subsequently, determining the infraction and imposing a fine of 30 UIT or S / 138 thousand.
It is also indicated that if the candidate who violated the rule reoffends, the sanction of exclusion from the list of candidates for the next electoral elections is applied.
The JNE stressed that the regulation also says that the maximum sanction can also be applied directly when the JEE determines that the gifts given exceed 2 UIT (S / 9,200). In addition to this, a transfer is made to the Public Ministry to take action regarding its powers.
Commitment of the Electoral Pact
Previously, the electoral institution invited citizens to propose commitments that the candidates and organizations will have to fulfill in order to develop a peaceful, clean and transparent campaign, ahead of the 2022 Regional and Municipal Elections.
This, based on the campaign “Let’s build together the commitments of the Electoral Ethical Pact” which is promoted by this electoral body.
Proposals from citizens will be received from Thursday, July 7 to Sunday, July 10 through a free access virtual form that is on the portal of the Informed Vote program of the National Directorate of Citizen Education and Civic Training.
