Supreme Court should fire TE judges who let ex-president off the hook – analyst

For analyst José Eugenio Stoute, the ruling of the Electoral Court (TE) that grants criminal electoral jurisdiction to former President Ricardo Martinelli has two extremely serious implications reports TVN.

The first is that magistrates Alfredo Juncá and Heriberto Araúz allegedly committed the crime called “prevarication “that occurs when a ruling is issued, knowing that it is against the law in the sense of having ruled on the principle of specialty.

He stressed that both magistrates knew that because magistrate Eduardo Valdés Escoffery had made a presentation explaining why the Electoral Court could not give an opinion on it because that is not the responsibility of the institution.

“I think that the Supreme Court of Justice should remove them from office, investigate them and condemn them in an exemplary manner,” said the analyst, indicating that the actions of the magistrates cast a cloak of impunity over the former president.

He stressed that the two magistrates knew that the principle of specialty to which they referred does not exist and it was not their responsibility to issue a ruling on it.

“This is so serious that the Odebrecht case and New Business arose before the party existed, which means that you can rob a bank today and then found a political party and say: you can’t judge me, that’s the way it is. what has happened here is very serious,” said Stoute.

He argued that the blow that has been given to the democratic credibility of the country is total, assuring that it is worthless for Araúz to leave his post in December because the damage has already been done, and what is happening is very serious, especially because if The Electoral Court does not have the full confidence of the citizens, it does not work, it is not a guarantor of the electoral results.