Emerging politician Claudio Caamaño calls for the passing of a bill that would create the Tribunales Electorales de Primer Grado. These first-level electoral courts would hear most of the electoral-related cases in the provinces and the National District. Caamaño sees this as a solution to an expected legal bottleneck at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Caamaño writes that the ambiguities in the Electoral Regime Law and the Political Parties Law will bring about a crash of the system and affect the outcome of the 2020 general elections. The TSE alone will not be able to handle the avalanche of recourses expected. He said the many cases the higher court is already handling before the election is evidence of what is to be expected once the elections take place.
On Saturday, Diario Libre reported that in just the past two weeks, the TSE has already received 20 recourses rejecting pre-electoral decisions by political parties and the Central Electoral Board. These are regarding decisions made by the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).
There are 4,113 elective positions in just the municipal elections scheduled for 16 February 2020, not taking into account the 17 May 2020 congressional and presidential elections.
Read more in Spanish:
El Dia
Diario Libre
26 August 2019