The First Administrative Electoral Court decreed, on December 21, the nullity of resolution 137-2021 of the National Directorate of Electoral Organization of the Electoral Tribunal of December 10, 2021, which regulates the opening, convocation and organization of internal elections of the Panameñista Party, set for January 23, 2022.
The decision was made after the lawyer Josue Jannette Ruíz, in her capacity as a member of the Panameñista Party, pointed out, among other things, that the applications “should not have been opened” since Wednesday, December 15, 2021, as it was not yet in sign Resolution 137 DNOE.
Ruíz explained that due process had been violated, specifically regarding the timing of the notice of the convocation of this internal election process and the nominations. In his opinion, they failed to comply with the deadlines dictated by the electoral law.
Meanwhile, Judge Raquel Núñez pointed out that the annulment petition was proposed on time before the headquarters of the electoral administrative courts, since it was exactly on December 15, 2021, at 4:13 pm, that it was introduced. In the same way, he asked to decree the absolute nullity of Resolution 137, which renders any act carried out by virtue of it null and void.
The prosecutor of this group, Porfirio Bastista, has said that an appeal was filed against the decision of the electoral judge.
The president of the group, José Isabel Blandón, commented on his Twitter account that the internal electoral process in the group is ongoing. “Although it is true that there is a resolution of an electoral administrative court, this decision was appealed by us on the grounds that they violated due process and made a fundamental mistake,” he wrote.
