Another criminal complaint against Tribunal’s Martinelli ruling

The president of the Country Party, José Alberto Álvarez, filed a criminal complaint with the Attorney General’s office against the magistrates of the Electoral Court (TE) Heriberto Araúz Sánchez and Alfredo Juncá for abuse of authority and violation of their duties as public officials who recently ruled in favor of the electoral criminal jurisdiction that benefits former President Ricardo Martinelli.

Álvarez also requested the separation of their position as magistrates of the TE while it is investigated. He explained that they have conclusive evidence that will accompany the complaint filed.

He said that the two magistrates exceeded the limits assigned to them by the Constitution and the law. He also asks the Attorney General, Javier Caraballo, to accept the complaint and send it to the Supreme Court that they can be removed from office while it is investigated. The document indicates that the warning and the opinion that magistrate Eduardo Valdés gave in his saving of votes was clear, punctual, and categorical when pointing out the evident excess of functions in which the denounced magistrates incurred when deciding the application of the principle of specialty coming from the Extradition Treaty signed between the Republic of Panama and the United States at the time they signed the resolution of March 22 the  Court had no jurisdiction to resolve a situation that is the power of another jurisdiction, in this case, the criminal judicial authority.