2024-02-11 17:31:54
The Fifth Section of the Council of State denied the demand of the representative to the Chamber, Marelén Castillo Torres, who was a vice-presidential candidate in 2022, in the request for politics wanted the legal status of the Anti-Corruption Rulers League Party, political group of the former mayor and former candidate for the Presidency, Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, to be declared null and void..
Exactly, The Congresswoman requested the annulment of Resolution 3750 of August 4, 2022, by which the National Electoral Council (CNE) decided the request for recognition of legal personality of the Party presented by Rodolfo Hernández.
For the high court, Rodolfo Hernández was not part of the board of directors, nor had he been a member of the registered committee of the significant group of the League of Anti-Corruption Rulers, which presented itself with its own list in the legislative elections for the House of Representatives for Santander. , did not annul their right to form a political party as part of the application of the Statute of the Opposition.
“Now, the fact that the Constitutional Court in the aforementioned SU-316 of 2021 has contemplated that for the recognition of legal status of political groups in the cases of seats derived from the application of the Statute of the Opposition, it is also required exceeding the threshold that “at least one of the candidates on the formula must accept his seat in Congress and declare himself in opposition” per se, It does not mean that the members of said formula are necessarily the legal representatives of the community, its founding members or directors.” considered the Council of State.
Therefore, with the decision, it is expected that the party will be part of the next elections that will be held in the country.
Finallythe Fifth Section, concluded that it was not an obligation to invite Marelén Castillo as Rodolfo Hernández’s former vice presidential candidate to the founding assembly of the party. Nor was it mandatory to summon it to the founding assembly in which it was decided to convert the significant group of citizens into a political party.
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