A recent ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court has declared articles 152 and 157 of the Electoral Law 20-23 in violation of the Dominican Constitution, sending shockwaves through the country’s political landscape and setting the stage for yet another overhaul of the nation’s electoral regulations, Listin Diario reports.
The contentious articles, which dealt with independent candidacies, were deemed unconstitutional due to an inconsistency between their titles and content. The Constitutional Court found that the law had imposed overly burdensome requirements on independent candidates, essentially forcing them to create political organizations similar in structure to established political parties.
“The mechanism provided for the presentation of independent candidacies requires the creation of political groups, structured in a manner similar to traditional...
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