The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ordered the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to rule in the next five days on the presidential candidacy of former President Leonel Fernández pursuant to a motion presented by the Christian Social Reformist Party (PRSC) on 15 November 2019, citing Article 134 of Law 15-19 on the electoral regime.
The judges of the TSE say that Leonel Fernández has already been admitted as a presidential candidate by the Dominican Workers’ Party (PTD) through resolution number 30/2019, issued by the JCE on 20 November 2019.
The PRSC and presidential candidate Leonel Fernández presented the motion arguing that the JCE has left the former President in limbo by postponing the decision on his candidacy until the Constitutional Court decides on a direct action of unconstitutionality filed whereby Fernández would be in violation of switching political parties during an election that is banned by dispositions in the Electoral Law 55-19.
They recalled that direct actions of unconstitutionality do not have suspension effects, and therefore requested the TSE to order the JCE to register Fernández, and to make use of its constitutional and legal powers.
They maintain that the JCE cannot delegate its powers and that in doing so it has committed an act of administrative irresponsibility. The PRSC and former President Leonel Fernández were represented by lawyers Namphy Rodríguez, Manuel Fermín, Manuel Ulises Bonnelly, Manuel Olivero Rodríguez, Juárez Castillo Semán and Julián Gómez.
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28 February 2020