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07-02-2009, 05:10 PM
The Constitutional Revisory Assembly has approved articles 240, 241 and 242 that cover the Central Electoral Board (JCE), but did not establish the number of members on the board. If the articles are not modified during the second reading, it will be up to the Electoral Law to establish the number of members of the JCE.
The report from the commission once again modified the composition of the new JCE, since in the previous session the proposal was for the JCE to have three members. The assembly members modified a proposal from the Executive Branch and they conferred on the Central Electoral Board the ability to regulate the times and limits, campaign expenses as well as media access. By means of a transitional disposition, the members of the JCE and the Electoral Tribunal will be elected in 2010 and serve until 2016.
The Assembly also approved the creation of a Superior Electoral Tribunal with three members who will serve for six years and eliminated the electoral prosecutor. They placed the designation of the members of the Superior Electoral Tribunal in the hands of the Senate, and not the National Council of magistrates as proposed by the draft sent by the Executive Power and modified by the commission.
The Constitutional Revisory Assembly gave their blessings to the provision that places professional confidentiality and journalists' privilege in the Constitution, as well as the right to reply and reaffirmed the access of the media to news sources, as they approved article 40 of the reform proposal submitted by the President and modified.
The Revisory Assembly for Constitutional reform went into recess until the commissions that are studying 120 articles present their reports to the full body. In one commission chaired by Jose Cabrera, the issues of monetary and financial rules are awaiting study. A commission headed by Francisco Dominguez Brito is studying the 36 articles that deal with judicial reform. The articles that refer to the Armed Forces and the police and those that deal with the Legislative Power are being studied by a commission led by Teodoro Ursino Reyes.
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The report from the commission once again modified the composition of the new JCE, since in the previous session the proposal was for the JCE to have three members. The assembly members modified a proposal from the Executive Branch and they conferred on the Central Electoral Board the ability to regulate the times and limits, campaign expenses as well as media access. By means of a transitional disposition, the members of the JCE and the Electoral Tribunal will be elected in 2010 and serve until 2016.
The Assembly also approved the creation of a Superior Electoral Tribunal with three members who will serve for six years and eliminated the electoral prosecutor. They placed the designation of the members of the Superior Electoral Tribunal in the hands of the Senate, and not the National Council of magistrates as proposed by the draft sent by the Executive Power and modified by the commission.
The Constitutional Revisory Assembly gave their blessings to the provision that places professional confidentiality and journalists' privilege in the Constitution, as well as the right to reply and reaffirmed the access of the media to news sources, as they approved article 40 of the reform proposal submitted by the President and modified.
The Revisory Assembly for Constitutional reform went into recess until the commissions that are studying 120 articles present their reports to the full body. In one commission chaired by Jose Cabrera, the issues of monetary and financial rules are awaiting study. A commission headed by Francisco Dominguez Brito is studying the 36 articles that deal with judicial reform. The articles that refer to the Armed Forces and the police and those that deal with the Legislative Power are being studied by a commission led by Teodoro Ursino Reyes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)