The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Román Jáquez, yesterday valued the presence in the country of the 20 international delegations that will serve as observers of the elections on Sunday the 19th, indicating that especially in Latin America, their involvement will contribute to the strengthening of the democratic system, legitimacy and transparency, in addition to allowing numerous aspects of the electoral processes to be corrected.
“Particularly we consider that the most advisable thing is that the observation missions respond to the idea that the factors that make up the elections can be perfected between election and election, the Dominican case, from the elections of last February 18 to these elections of the 19 “What possibilities for improvement should there be between one election and another?” said the president of the JCE.
Jáquez considered that the commitment of these observers in the country is to achieve a more robust democracy, with the levels of transparency that every society requires, and that they make the work of electoral observation necessary, vital and solemn.
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He specified that this Sunday the 19th will be observed by more than 400 international observers, who are distributed in 20 missions accredited by the Central Electoral Board.
The main electoral official highlighted that just as they were the eyes of the world in the elections on February 18, they will now be the eyes of the world this Sunday the 19th.
“But they will also be the ears of the development of the electoral process. In short, you are a fundamental part of the transparency of our democracy. Thank you to each and everyone for being the eyes and ears of the world in the celebration of Dominican democracy,” Jáquez emphasized.
During the opening ceremony, the president of the JCE highlighted that the reception of the international observers coincides with the commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the suffragettes, the celebration of the 101st anniversary of the founding of the electoral body (1923-2024); the 100 years of the first elections held by the JCE (1924-2024) and the 20 years (2004-2024) of the implementation of voting abroad.
The Plenary Session of the JCE took advantage of the occasion to deliver to the representation of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (UNIORE), the actions undertaken by the electoral body, responding to the observations and recommendations of these missions in their reports.
The observers
Among the missions, the diplomatic corps that is accredited in the country from the embassies of the United States, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, El Salvador and Honduras, in the Diplowatch modality. Another group is made up of the Organization of American States (OAS), with its head of mission, Eduardo Frei; that of the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations, whose mission chief is Ana Paola Hall; that of the Association of Electoral Magistrates of America, headed by Katia Uriona; the Center for Electoral Advice and Promotion of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH/CAPEL), headed by José Thompson; the Foundation for Electoral Systems, represented by Gracia Angulo Duncan.
On behalf of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America (Copppal), they have Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas as their head of mission; The Council of Electoral Experts of Latin America (Ceela) appointed Nicanor Moscoso as head of the mission; The Delegation of the European Union in the Dominican Republic is represented by Katja Afheldt.
While for the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) and the Electoral Institute of Mexico City (ICEM), the heads of missions are Amado Cerrud Acevedo and Álvaro Castañón Cuevas respectively.
Is the assembly ready?
At the ceremony to welcome the observers, the general director of Elections, Mario Núñez, took the opportunity to clear up doubts about the setup, ensuring that everything is ready and that the municipal electoral boards are complying with the electoral work schedule, both the administrative as well as the legal deadlines.
Núñez explained that since yesterday they have been delivering the material to presidents and secretaries of the 16,726 Local Electoral Colleges and the 1,566 Foreign Electoral Colleges, so the only thing left for tomorrow is for the college officials to verify the contents of the suitcases and the electoral kit. check that everything is complete and leave them in the custody of the Electoral Military Police, to make way for the installation of the electronic equipment.
“We can now say as the Central Electoral Board that the electoral process is completely set up,” he said.
Zero proselytizing and drinking
Mario Núñez, who gave a presentation to international observers on the status of the process, took the opportunity in his aside with the press to remind the political parties that as of today no candidate can be promoted because it would be a violation of the law, in addition that tomorrow the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages begins, up to 12 hours after the elections.
Source: The Caribbean
