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The TSE refuses to annul PRD Convention results

Guido Gomez said the tribunal put itself at the service of the political cause

SANTO DOMINGO. The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) declared as inadmissible, by law, a demand for annulment for the convocation, the results in the proclamation of the candidates presented as winners of the XXX National Ordinary Convention of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), held last 20 July.

Likewise, the high court said that it was evident that the plaintiff, Guido Orlando Gomez Mazara, did not correctly exhaust the procedure for challenging the results inside the political organization, because he started the challenge before the National Organizing Commission (CNC), which, according to article 19 of the Conventions Regulations, constituted the 2nd level of internal jurisdiction," skipping in this matter the first level of jurisdiction, which was constituted by the Local Organizing Commissions of the Convention (CLOs), and by doing this, violating the statutory mandates and regulations dictated to this effect."

The tribunal said that what was described made it impossible for the TSE to proceed with a hearing on the basis of the demands, by reason of non-compliance with the internal procedure for challenging established for that purpose in the Statutes, the Regulations and the dispositions that were in force at the PRD Convention.

They indicated that, on the contrary, they would violate the autonomy and the principle of self- regulation which the political parties enjoy. These are sanctioned in article 216 of the Constitution of the Republic, which this state electoral agency is obliged to follow. The high court noted that it has been reiterative in similar cases, of recognizing that the intervention of this court in the cases of elections for leadership positions in the political organizations it is conditioned to the previous exhaustion of the internal manner of the party in question.