The Popular Unity (UP) political movement, list 2, insists that the resolution of the National Electoral Council (CNE) that ordered the definitive cancellation of its registration is void.
In order to reverse the decision, the organization presented a correction appeal to the CNE, according to Geovanni Atarihuana, national director of the UP.
“We have filed the correction appeal so that, due to nullity, the decision of Diana Atamaint (president of the CNE) and the Electoral Council is revoked,” said the leader this Thursday, April 30, through a video published on social networks.
He explained that the appeal must be processed in the next three days. “We are going to wait for truth and justice to prevail,” said Atarihuana, while calling to join the day of mobilizations for Labor Day, on Friday, May 1.
In his message on social networks, the representative of the political movement listed the reasons why, in the opinion of the UP, the CNE resolution should be revoked:
- The decision was adopted twenty-three days after the legal deadline expired.
- No evidence has been presented of the alleged number of disaffiliations.
- The challenges presented against Diana Atamaint and the alternate director José Merino Abad were not processed.
- The casting vote of the president of the CNE is neither legitimate nor legal.
- Due process and legal certainty have been systematically violated and there is no motivation.
The plenary session of the CNE approved last Sunday, April 26, the cancellation of the registration as political organizations of the Unidad Popular party, list 2, and the Construye movement, list 25.
The cancellation of UP occurred after the technical-legal report issued received two abstentions and two votes in favor, leaving President Atamaint’s decision vote to approve what was defined in the document.
The Unidad Popular maintains that the cause for cancellation based on the loss of members is false. The organization assures that it has 206,000 memberships throughout the country and that the CNE itself certified on April 3 that disaffiliations in the last six years do not exceed 1% of the total party registry. (YO)
