The vice president of the Institutionality and Justice Foundation (Finjus), Servio Tulio Castaños Guzmanassured today that the scope of the sanctions by the Central Electoral Board (JCE) in the face of the campaign at the wrong time, it only has an administrative nature and that it lacks “tools to bring it to order.”
“The sanctions because they are the ones that she can by resolution are administrative and that is why many times the parties do not pay attention to the Central Electoral Board, because the board does not have the tool to bring it to order and has then had to agree on the together with the parties the cessation of the pre-campaign”, he said.
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interviewed on the show “Telematutino 11”the renowned jurist called the National Congress to “understand” the powers that correspond to them since when the board adopts some regulations the parties “get handsome with the board.”
“The National Congress has to understand that there are things that are attributions of them, the law of political parties and the law of electoral regime as some issues could not be resolved in Congress then approved that for those issues the board had regulatory capacity. So, every time the board regulates aspects in which they did not agree, the parties get angry with the board,” said Castaños Guzmán.
Likewise, he stated that the powers of Congress must be rescued but not designate a “regulatory capacity so broad” to the JCE to avoid conflicts in the country’s party system.
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“We have to rescue the natural powers of Congressand what we gave the board as an attribution, may have regulatory capacity in certain aspects, but not such a broad regulatory capacity that it has created a conflict for the board with the political parties”, he pointed out.
It is recalled that last week the President of the Republic, Luis Abinaderconvened an extraordinary legislature with the interest that, among other laws, the electoral regime be known.
