Candidate for direct nomination prevalence in the contest by the Alcaldía de Guánica

After a lengthy debate on the recent extradition, the State Election Commission (CEE) concluded the list of votes for the Guanica Alcaldia and the candidate for direct nomination, Edgardo Cruz Vélez, as vencedor.

Of this form, Cruz Vélez has the history of converting to the second person that accesses the electrified cargo of alcalde by means of the direct nomination mechanism. The first to be recorded Santos “El Negro Ortiz”, which in 1988, by direct nomination, went to be Alcode of Cabo Rojo.

In agreement with the CEE official certification, Cruz Vélez prevailed with 2,411 votes in front and 2,356 by Ismael “Titi” Rodríguez. Rodríguez, a member of the Popular Democratic Party, pleaded guilty to two counts of using the certificate issued by the CEE and is bound by the Supreme Court’s decision to hold a plea for election.

The highest Court of Appeal decided this week that the CEE should consider all the votes in Cruz Vélez of those papers in which the number of importers and markers appearing or the corresponding correspondence to a direct nomination.

CEE realizes that this work has been extinguished for the time being. The content of the votes of the contestant of the Alcaldia was a replete of controversies and constant changes.

Cruz Vélez, in a telephone interview with El Nuevo Día and while being directed to Guanica, it passes through a “cross”.

“It was 4:30 in the morning and we will cover 74 calendar days, between November 3rd and Sunday, of crossings. Nadie must pass through this process in the nearest electoral cycle, ”said Guánica.

Reconciliation that now will make the transition process with Rodríguez, who presumably has the property with the exaltation of Guánica, Santos Seda.

Cruz Vélez indicates that he was present before the tribunals for the impeachment of Rodríguez’s certification, an action that was necessary to cancel the previous certification issued by the CEE. Electoral voters, without any explanation, no puede anularla. There must be an impeachment and certification for the CEE procedure, according to the alternate president of the electoral district, Jessika Padilla.

“Hoy la hicimos (la impugnación) porque debía inclu una certification de la CEE con el numer de votos que habíamos obtenido”, verslur Cruz Vélez, quien previo a decidir a aspirar a la alcaldía de Guánica by nomination nomión inténing ser Progress (PNP) under the auspices of Projecto Dignidad.

Exactly, ayer the electoral commissioner of the PNP, Héctor Joaquín Sánchez había adelantado a El Nuevo Día that Cruz Vélez was the winner in the Guánica contingent.

More controversy in the courts

Pero Rodríguez adelantó, at the behest of his lawyer, the ex-commissioner of elections Lind Orlando Merle Feliciano, who will join the tribunals. Destecó that the CEE, in a motion presented to the tribunals as part of the case presented by Cruz Vélez, certified that “no quedaban more votes by adjudicar and de subito, of madrugada aparecen 38 additional votes. It is not a new allegation, the acts are here and we are in the court that the electoral process is just and responsible”.

Merle Feliciano claims that in the universe of votes registered in the general election of the 3rd of November, in the regular college registered 1,899 votes, per the count of votes of ayer appeared 1,955 votes.

“We agree that the final votes of Edgardo Cruz Vélez are 2 341 in No. 2 411, with 2 386 by Ismael ‘Titi’ Rodríguez, for a difference of 45 votes. All this situation is extremely irregular. For an example, for the certification of the alcalde Ismael ‘Titi’ Rodríguez, the CEE delayed 6 days and for Edgardo Cruz the issue of intermediates “, said.

The certification of Guanica Alcaldia is not unique. Also from the Alcaldias of Aguadilla, Culebra, Barranquitas and San Juan hay impregnations. All candidates who lose their votes in the Alcaldias have the upper hand, four, to present impunity, according to the Electoral Code, with the ten days that prove to be the issue of issuing the official certificates and considering that 5 .