Paraguayan electoral body denounces protesters for riots

He Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) of Paraguayan filed a complaint this Tuesday with the Public Ministry against protesters who have staged riots and mobilizations in various locations in the country, in rejection of the results of Sunday’s general elections.

“He TSJE filed a criminal complaint for punishable acts against the safety of people’s coexistence, disturbance of public peace, apology for the crime, punishable acts against the constitutionality of the State and the Electoral System”, reads a publication of the body on Twitter.

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In the complaint, the TSJE indicated that the names and data of the protesters’ leaders could be identified through journalistic notes, television media recordings, social networks, and radio media audio from May 1 and 2, 2023.

The agency noted that it recognizes “the right of people to assemble and demonstrate peacefully”.

However, he added that “These facts could affect other powers of constitutional rank”.

Paraguay woke up this Tuesday with protests in different parts of its geography, which, according to the National Policethey already leave 80 detainees.

Citizens mobilized after the former independent candidate Paraguayan Cubas reported an allegedfraud” in the general elections, in which the official santiago pena prevailed in the presidential elections and the ruler Colorado Party He conquered the majority of the Senate and 15 of the country’s 17 governorships.

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For their part, the former candidates Ephraim Alegre and Euclides Acevedowho finished in second and fourth place, respectively, requested a manual count and an audit of the computerized electronic voting system used in the general elections on Sunday.

The director of electoral processes of the TSJE, Carlos Maria Ljubetictold reporters that there is no possibility of fraud in the voting system.

The TSJE even ordered the transmission through its social networks of the provisional judgment of the scrutiny records.

“This software was perhaps the most reviewed, audited and audited in the world”, the official claimed.

He highlighted the presence, among others, of observers of the European Unionof the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights through the Electoral Advice and Promotion Center (Capel) and the Union of Electoral Bodies (Uniore).

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According to Ljubetic, the machines do not store the votes and indicated that they cannot, therefore, be modified because “these are not saved”.

“It’s like trying to find a vote in an empty bag.”, he illustrated.

Those of Sunday were the first general elections to have electronic voting machines, a system that was released experimentally in 2020 with the elections of the Council of the Magistracy.

Source: Elcomercio

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