Santo Domingo.-If the reform to the Electoral Regime Law is approved by the deputies, they will have 7 new scenarios to make alliances at the municipal level.
This is established in article 134, which details the seven levels of election, starting with the presidential, and ending at the level of members.
Before the parties could not make alliances in a municipality without leaving aside their municipal districts, but in this reform they are given space to do so separately.
It is recalled that before there was only one ballot that included, at the municipal level, the mayors with their alternates, councilors and alternates, and the district directors and their members.
In other words, for the municipal elections there will be different ballots, which would be: mayoral level, where the mayors and vice mayors will be elected together; councilor level, there will be an election of councilors and their substitutes, with preferential vote; level of district directors, for the directors and deputy directors of Municipal Districts, and finally the level of members, in which the members of the municipal districts will be chosen with the preferential vote.
Also, the preferential vote at the municipal level was consolidated, both in the districts and in the municipalities, by which the division is eliminated and each of the candidates who participate in that electoral contest will have their vote counted.
Voting automation
The use of electronic technology is contemplated only for the scrutiny or counting of valid votes and the transmission of results. But not so in the use of electronic voting in any of the modalities.
Regarding the turncoat, the issue was not considered, because this aspect is regulated and referred to in the Political Parties Law.
One of the issues that was most discussed in the 2020 elections was the cap on campaign spending. However, these did not change.
This is established in the reform project approved by the Upper House in two readings, submitted by the reformist senator Ramón Rogelio Genao.
The reformist legislator stressed that, with this reform, what is achieved is to incorporate the fifteen sentences that affected the Electoral Regime Law in some aspects, issued by the Constitutional Court (ten in total), Superior Electoral Court (three), and two by the Superior Administrative Court.
conquests
— In essence
According to the senator for La Vega, Ramón Rogelio Genao, the conquests that the project introduces at the electoral level are, essentially, those that derive from sentences of the Constitutional, Electoral and Superior Administrative Courts.
The Electoral Law has organic rank
Legislation. The Senate approved on the 1st on the first second reading the Organic Law Project for the Electoral Regime, which was sent to the Chamber of Deputies.
It is an initiative presented by Senators Ramón Rogelio Genao and Alexis Victoria with the purpose of regulating the exercise of the right to choose and be eligible.
It will also regulate the procedure and development of the electoral process for the conformation of the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch and the election of municipal authorities.
It establishes in its article 141 on Gender Equity that the candidacies for deputies, councilors and members must be made up of no less than 40% women.
