Puerto Rico suspends primary elections 3:38
(CNN Spanish) - The elections in Puerto Rico add a new controversy. This Wednesday, the island's Supreme Court halted the disclosure of the results of the 36 precincts where the voters of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) voted in the primaries that began on Sunday, and which had to be suspended.
The court's order comes after the president of the PPD, Aníbal José Torres, announced the decision to present preliminary results for his party, after some unofficial results were made public.
The determination occurs at a time when the high judicial forum has before its consideration several legal resources regarding the paralysis of the electoral event, ordered by the State Elections Commission (CEE) after the electoral ballots did not reach the majority of the centers voting country.
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On Tuesday, the candidate for governor for the New Progressive Party (PNP) and current governor, Wanda Vázquez Garced, filed a lawsuit against the EEC to order that they vote again in all the schools that did not open at 8:00 in the morning for the primaries last Sunday.
In the appeal for electoral review submitted in the San Juan court of first instance, he also asked that actions be taken against the leaks of results.
The pre-candidate for governor for the New Progressive Party (PNP), Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, also submitted an appeal for electoral review before the same court requesting that the determination of the State Elections Commission (CEE) to paralyze the process be annulled. election of the vote count of the primaries.
The Supreme Court accepted all the cases on the paralysis of the primaries and will have to pronounce in the next days.
For its part, the State Elections Commission determined that the primary elections process should continue next Sunday, August 16.
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