There are three appeals pending before the Electoral Dispute Tribunal (TCE), which asks the electoral judges to annul the resolution of the Special Council for Foreign Affairs which annulled the telematic vote abroad of the dignity of the members of the National Assembly and representatives of migrants, and with him, the results are announced on the basis of the checks of August 20th.

There is a fourth cause, initially archived, but that the plaintiff Pierina Correa, of the Citizen Revolution movement (RC), appealed and the request was granted. This case is against the five advisers of the National Electoral Council (CNE), for having solved the telematic vote abroad for the elections of August 20 and which generated a series of claims, but that there was no timely responses from the electorate.

After the electoral results of last August 20, recorded abroad, seven additional appeals were presented to the TCE, all requesting that the votes be held again due to the difficulties presented at the time of the granting of the telematic vote. The seven subjective appeals were archived because the plaintiffs, who presented themselves in a personal capacity, did not complete or expand the information required by the electoral judges.

Appeal for nullity of votes

The National Electoral Council (CNE) expects the Electoral Dispute Court to dispose of the contentious appeals presented by the resolution of nullity of the telematic vote abroad on the dignity of national and foreign parliamentarians before officially calling the second round of the elections planned October 15. , where in addition to choosing the new leaders of the country, Ecuadorians residing abroad must vote for the members of the National Assembly and choose their six representatives.

The first appeal for nullity of the ballot was filed by Lucio Gutiérrez, former president and virtual deputy of the Patriotic Society Party (PSP), supplemented and expanded the information requested by Judge Joaquín Viteri Llanga, but the case was referred to substitute judge Juan Patricio Maldonado Benítez, as the main judge went on vacation until September 12.

This is case 234 and was presented on August 28. The subjective electoral appeal relates to the resolution of the Foreign Electoral Council (JEE), published on August 25, which annulled the votes of the members of the National Assembly and the representatives of migrants residing abroad; and in the letter, he asks the TCE to cancel the resolution and to order that the results expressed by the voters of August 20, 2023 be counted, without prejudice to the carrying out by the CNE of the investigations and actions on the voting process telematics run.

The two calls also for the nullity of the votes abroad were presented by the Construye movement.

Carla Cruz Zambrano, assembly candidate for Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa for the Construye movementOn September 1, he filed a subjective electoral appeal against the resolution issued by the Special Foreign Affairs Council.

The processing of file 237 corresponded to the electoral judge Guillermo Ortega, which ordered the plaintiff to clarify and complete his appeal. The mandate to do so expired on September 4 and Carla Cruz presented the required information, as well as the evidence referring to the resolutions taken by the Special Foreign Affairs Council and the data provided by the CNE which, as of August 22, established that the representative of Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa, through the movement Build List 25, entered the National Assembly with 43.23%.

Cruz Zambrano said she wanted the ECT to declare null the resolution taken by the Special Foreign Affairs Council, because it did not have the competence to declare the nullity of the votes of August 20, which violated the rights of Ecuadorians to the ‘stranger.

Raúl González Vásconez, as national secretary and legal representative of the Construye movement, filed a subjective electoral appeal against the advisers of the National Electoral Council and the Attorney General of the State, Juan Carlos Larrea, and asks the TCE to declare nullity of the CNE plenary. resolution (PLE-CNE-2-30-8-2023), therefore declares null and void the resolution of the Special Foreign Affairs Council on voting abroad concerning the appointment of members of the National Assembly and representatives Ecuadorians abroad.

Once the declaration of nullity, in accordance with the request of the leader of the Construye movement, the Special Council for Foreign Affairs and the plenary session of the National Electoral Council will be ordered to proclaim, on the basis of the control of the telematic vote of August 20, the results for national assembly members and winners for foreign assembly members corresponding to districts: United States and Canada; Latin America, Caribbean, Africa; and Europe, Asia and Oceania.

File 238 is being handled by the substitute electoral judge Juan Patricio Maldonado Benítez, who replaces the principal Joaquín Viteri Llanga, who has requested a vacation until next September 12. Judge Maldonado, before deciding on the admission of the procedure, asked the plaintiff to expand and complete the information for which he set a two-day deadline that expires on September 6. (YO)