Súmate urged the CNE board of directors to settle the 23-year delay with the elaboration of the Referendum Bill
The Súmate Civil Association pointed out this Wednesday, December 14, that the National Electoral Council (CNE) must approve schedule for reversal of charges before the end of this 2022.
In a announcementSúmate indicated that the Electoral Power you have less than 15 days to approve and publish the schedule for holding the recall referendums of the deputies of the National Assembly 2020, governors and state legislators, mayors and councilors.
According to the organizationthese people will complete half of their constitutional and legal period between July and November of next year 2023.
Likewise, the NGO reminded the governing body of the CNE, that it has the obligation, by articles 6 and 72 of the Constitutionto facilitate the exercise of the right to revoke publicly elected officials.
«For this reason, he hopes that the omission of the publication will not be repeated within the corresponding period; nor the publication of conditions for recall referendum requests that make it impossible to exercise this constitutional right enshrined in article 72, as it did in January of this year, which can be corroborated in the terms and conditions that it gave to meet on January 21, 2022 for the Request for the Call of the Recall Referendum of the President of the Republic, “he adds.
In this sense, Súmate urged the CNE board of directors to settle the 23-year delay with the elaboration of the Referendum Bill, which must include the regulation of referendums advisory, revocatory, approving and repealing.
The foregoing is a requirement established in article 70 of the Constitution in December 1999, and 20 years as provided in the Third Transitory Provision of the Organic Law of Electoral Power (LOPE):
“The National Electoral Council within the first year following its installation will prepare… the Bill… of Referendums, and present it to the National Assembly,” the provision states.
Finally, Súmate reiterates that the CNE “has no excuse or justification for this delay of more than two decades in the preparation and presentation of the Bill of Referendums before the National Assembly«.
