The president of the National Elections Jury, Jorge Luis Salas-Arenassent – this Thursday, June 9 – a letter to the president of the Congress of the Republic, Maria del Carmen Alva, to nullify what has been done by the Investigative Commission of the 2021 General Election Process, chaired by Congressman Jorge Montoyaof Renovación Popular, in whose final report insists on alleged electoral fraud despite evidence against.
In the letter, Jorge Luis Salas-Arenas realizes that, despite requests to Congress, they have not been sent a copy of the final report of the Montoya Commission: “We have been able to learn about its scope through the social media, and therefore, within the framework of the Constitutional State of Law, we consider that it presents serious constitutional and conventional effects,” explained in the letter.
In this line, the owner of the JNE warns that the Parliament has not respected due process and this generates a violation of various fundamental rights of the members of the JNE, for which it states that “everything taken by the Investigative Commission of the General Election Process 2021 from the formation of its members, as well as everything subsequently carried out, including the final report issued”.
The Montoya Commission would have violated the fundamental rights of the members of the JNE, warns Jorge Luis Salas Arenas. Photo: letter from the JNE to María del Carmen Alva
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Montoya Commission report can be used to denounce the JNE
The final report of the Investigative Commission of the 2021 General Election Processseems to ignore the investigations carried out by national and international institutions, such as the OAS, the Electoral Experts Mission of the European Union, the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organisms and the Transparency Civil Association on the alleged electoral fraud, for which would not offer further revelations about what happened during the second electoral round of 2021.
Although it does not seem like a document with a real utility, it could be used to denounce the former prosecutor of the Nation Zoraida Avalos and the president of the National Elections Jury (JNE), Jorge Luis Salas-Arenasbefore the Subcommittee of Constitutional Accusations of the Parliament.
In his argument, the Montoya Commission exposes more of the same on the theory of alleged electoral fraud and this is made clear by the minority report presented by the congresswoman Sigrid Bazan of the Democratic Change caucus. It is also noted with concern that questioning the results of the elections affects the current institutional framework in the country and even more so if the majority report serves as a first step to present a constitutional complaint against the current president of the JNE in the future. Jorge Luis Salas-Arenas.
