Alexander Alfie
09/10/2021 4:40 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/10/2021 4:47 PM
The federal judge with electoral competence María Romilda Servini
appointed Gastón Callejon and Sergio Bernaudo as computerized judicial overseers
, to guarantee "greater certainty" and "prevent inconveniences" that could arise during the provisional scrutiny of the elections. STEP that the Government will carry out next Sunday.
Judge Servini's measure establishes that the computerized judicial overseers
must "verify the development of the tasks
concerning the transmission of data and the transformation of images for subsequent loading into the vote counting system."
The observers Callejon and Bernaudo usually work in the General Directorate of Technology of the National Magistracy Council.
The judicial resolution to which
Clarín
had access this Friday, but was issued the day before, was taken from the presentation made by the representatives of the PRO and Juntos por el Cambio for the Government to be intimidated "to present the first news , dissemination and information
in the
schedule that has been established as such in the last elections ",
starting at 9 pm.
The PRO representative, Santiago Alberdi, agreed with Judge Servini's resolution, so that there would be "more eyes controlling."
In any case, as the resolution does not specify at what time the transmission of results should begin,
Alberdi expects the Government to "comply with the schedule"
, since "as the National Electoral Chamber said, the Agreed One is still in force" and that "we warn ", said the PRO representative to
Clarín
.
The resolution of federal judge María Romilda Servini.
This Thursday there was a meeting of the party attorneys with the judges of the National Electoral Chamber.
And its president, Santiago Corcuera, ratified the validity of the Agreed Extraordinary 3, of January 2017, whose article 6.1 establishes that "the dissemination of the results must begin
no later than twenty-one (21) hours on the day of the election. , whatever the percentage
of tables scrutinized up to that moment. "
Anyway, Corcuera said that there may be some "delay" with respect to that schedule, as there are 20% more polling places, due to the pandemic;
although he stressed that
the results should be released before 11 pm.
Is that Diana Quiodo, head of the National Electoral Directorate (DINE), said the day before that "it is likely that, due to the dynamics of voting at the polls and the number of inmates, the closing will be delayed and
there will be official results from of the 23.
Before the 23 there would be no official information. Since then there will be a representative percentage of each district, "said the government official.
On the contrary, in the meeting with the party attorneys, the president of the CNE, Santiago Corcuera stated that he did not believe that “the delay is of that magnitude. We believe that the results can come sooner. There may be complications, because there are 20% more polling stations, but
we want to believe that the National Executive Power will accelerate the load and the dissemination.
We think that the results may be before ”23 hours.
The proxies for supporters recalled that in the STEP of the 2019 presidential elections,
Judge Servini also appointed judicial overseers,
although this time it was at the request of the Frente de Todos who harshly questioned the organization of the provisional scrutiny by the government of Mauricio Macri.
And to carry out this task, the judge also relied on professionals from the Technology Directorate of the Council of the Magistracy.
On that occasion, Judge Servini, after the appointment of the judicial overseers, also established that the results of the provisional ballot could only be disseminated
when 10% of the votes
of the city of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba were
loaded.
, Santa Fe.
It will be necessary to see if this time Judge Servini reiterates that minimum floor to begin to disseminate the results or if the 9:00 p.m. schedule is maintained, which the National Electoral Chamber resolved in Agreement 3, of 2017.