The discussion about the Permanent Civic Registry in the inmates of the Coalition takes different seasonings, since there is talk of a complaint that could end with the opposition nucleation, finally leaving it overboard.
The spirits of the National Concertation for the General Elections of 2023 are linked to the use of the Permanent Civic Registry (RCP) when choosing the presidential tag that will fight for a space in the Executive, against the Colorado Party. However, legal issues are the protagonists of this project, considered as a guarantee to challenge the opposition amalgam.
In this regard, Carlos María Ljubetic, director of Electoral Processes of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE), said that already in 2015 the candidacy of Mario Ferreiro tried to present himself for a concertation, using the pattern of all of Asunción, who were in the CPR. However, the Colorado Party brought legal action against the use of the padrón colorado within that concertation.
Carlos Maria Ljubetic
“On that occasion, the Electoral Justice, through a resolution of the Electoral Court of the Capital and on appeal, the TSJE agreed with the Colorado Party, not allowing the use of Colorado voters in the agreement,” he said, adding that That was the reason why the 2015 concertation ended up being dissolved, with Mario Ferreiro being the exclusive candidate of the Febrerista Revolutionary Party.
This decision, he continued, was sent as unconstitutional to the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), but it was never pronounced, for which the matter was established as a situation in which only the resolution of the Electoral Justice remains in force because it was not revoked.
“At this time the same issue is being presented again and we must clarify that the Civic Registry is not used for elections, but must be a register. The ANR has already announced a lawsuit and thus a new legal dispute will be provoked, whose resolution is in the hands of the judges », he indicated.
Within the point, he said that it is not his responsibility to say whether or not the RCP can be used because it is something to be determined by the Courts. For this reason, he clarified that the TSJE is simply warning that when the situation repeats itself, it must be resolved in three instances between July, August and September.
«The Electoral Court of the Capital must resolve, on appeal the TSJE and on unconstitutionality the CSJ. This when 7 years ago the Court had not ruled, “he sentenced, also pointing out that taking into account this scenario, the candidates of the concertation will have to campaign without knowing if more than two million voters can or cannot vote in their internal ones.
FOR A GREATER DEMOCRACY
“Only the use of the register of the parties and movements that make up the Coalition will be a very large situation of asymmetry that will make the agreement unfeasible. All independents and at a national level should be able to vote, said Soledad Núñez, former Senavitat minister and current presidential candidate for the National Coalition. For this reason, there is no talk of alternatives within the Coalition, other than the use of the RCP.
Soledad Nunez
He pointed out that in the worst of cases, an opening period should be held for those who want to participate in the voting in the Coalition’s internal elections and that the Colorados who want to vote should do so. He pointed out that there is an incentive from the ANR to curb the use of the RCP, for fear that the participations are higher in the Concertación and thus a victory can be seen before April.
“Surely they will try to do what is necessary, but there is a very important legal team working to make this viable, which is ultimately more democracy. We must understand that the problems of democracy will be solved with more democracy, not preventing people from participating or exercising the use of their political freedoms, participating in the elections they want”, ratified the presidential candidate.
He concluded by stating that, unfortunately, the ANR does not understand that impediments to people’s rights cannot be made because they go against the evolution of the country’s political system.
