The Higher Electoral Court (TSE) will once more become, this Friday 11 January at 9am, a setting for two actions to be debated. With this step former President Hipolito Mejia is seeking to halt the disciplinary trial that could expel him from the PRD on the one hand and revoke three resolutions that grant power to take internal decisions to party president Miguel Vargas Maldonado. The high court will deal with an appeal asking for Mejia’s immediate suspension and until the case is settled, all actions carried out by the National Prosecutor, Jose Geovanny Tejada, as part of the National Disciplinary Council. These actions come as a consequence of the complaint filed and the decree that set the hearing Number 002-2012 and was issued on 12 December 2012.
In one petition, Hipolito Mejia, PRD general secretary Orlando Jorge Mera, interim president Andres Bautista and organizational secretary Geanilda Vasquez, suggest that there are the clearest indications that there is an attempt to expel them from the party using an irregular process. Through their lawyers, Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero, Eduardo Sanz Lovaton, Rafael Mejia Guerrero, Julio Pena Guzman, Sigmund Freund Mena, Ramon Hernandez Dominguez, Dario de Jesus, Andres Lugo Risk and Angel Encarnacion, they are asking the TSE to declare the process which the party intends to use in the disciplinary process that will try and judge the petitioners, violates due process, is in violation of the Constitution, the laws, as well as party statutes. At the same time, they filed a request to annul resolutions seven, eight and nine of the XXVII Ordinary National Convention, Second Phase, of 28 February 2010, the lists of the members of the National Executive Committee and of the Political Commission registered in the Central Electoral