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Electoral Bodies
- EnglishElectoral Power is exercised by the National Electoral Council as governing body, and by the latter’s subordinate organs, the National Board of Elections, the Civil Status and Voter Registration Commission and the Commission on Political Participation and Financing, with organization and functioning as established under the pertinent organic law. (Art. 292)
- SpanishEl Poder Electoral se ejerce por el Consejo Nacional Electoral como ente rector y, son organismos subordinados a éste, la Junta Electoral Nacional, la Comisión de Registro Civil y Electoral y la Comisión de Participación Política y Financiamiento, con la organización y el funcionamiento que establezca la ley orgánica respectiva. (Art. 292)
Electoral Bodies
- EnglishThe organization, direction and supervision of the acts relative to the suffrage, correspond in exclusive form to the Supreme Tribunal of Elections, which enjoys independence in the performance of its mission. The other electoral organs are dependent of the Tribunal. (Art. 99)
- SpanishLa organización, dirección y vigilancia de los actos relativos al sufragio, corresponden en forma exclusiva al Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, el cual goza de independencia en el desempeño de su cometido. Del Tribunal dependen los demás organismos electorales. (Art. 99)
Electoral Bodies
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The Electoral Power is integrated by the Supreme Electoral Council and the other subordinate electoral organs [organismos]. (Art. 169)
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El Poder Electoral está integrado por el Consejo Supremo Electoral y demás organismos electorales subordinados. (Art. 169)
Electoral Bodies
- English(1) There shall be an Elections and Boundaries Commission which shall consist of a Chairman and four other members who shall be persons of integrity and high national standing.
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(13) The Commission shall be responsible for the direction and supervision of the registration of voters and the conduct of elections, referenda and all matters connected therewith.
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Electoral Bodies
- EnglishThe Superior Electoral Court is the appropriate organ to judge and decide with definitive character on the contentious electoral matters and to ordain over the disagreements that arise internally from the parties, groups, and political movements or between them. It shall regulate, in accordance with the law, the proceedings of its responsibility and all that is related to its administrative and financial organization and functioning. (Art. 214)
- SpanishEl Tribunal Superior Electoral es el órgano competente para juzgar y decidir con carácter definitivo sobre los asuntos contencioso electorales y estatuir sobre los diferendos que surjan a lo interno de los partidos, agrupaciones y movimientos políticos o entre éstos. Reglamentará, de conformidad con la ley, los procedimientos de su competencia y todo lo relativo a su organización y funcionamiento administrativo y financiero. (Art. 214)
Electoral Bodies
- EnglishThe Electoral Justice is integrated by a Superior Electoral Tribunal, by the tribunals, by the courts, by the offices of the Attorney [fiscalia] and by the other organs [organismos] to be specified by the law, which will determine its organization and its functions. (Art. 274)
- SpanishLa Justicia Electoral está integrada por un Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral, por los tribunales, por los juzgados, por las fiscalías y por los demás organismos a definirse en la ley, la cual determinará su organización y sus funciones. (Art. 274)
Electoral Bodies
- English(1) The Electoral Commission shall be responsible for the registration of voters for the purpose of electing members of the House and for the conduct of elections of members of the House and shall have such powers and other functions relating to such registration and elections as may be prescribed by law.
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Electoral Bodies
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A supplementary law shall provide for the organization and competence of the electoral courts, judges and boards.
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Lei complementar disporá sobre a organização e competência dos tribunais, dos juízes de direito e das juntas eleitorais.
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Electoral Bodies
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Everything that is related to the exercise of suffrage, the political rights, [the] political organizations, [the] electoral authorities and organs and the electoral process, will be regulated by the constitutional law of the matter.
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Todo lo relativo al ejercicio del sufragio, los derechos políticos, organizaciones políticas, autoridades y órganos electorales y proceso electoral, será regulado por la ley constitucional de la materia.
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Electoral Bodies
- EnglishThere shall be an Electoral Court which shall have the following powers in addition to those established in Section III or which may be prescribed by law:
a. To act in all matters relating to electoral acts or procedures;
b. To exercise directive, disciplinary, advisory, and economic supervision over electoral organs;
c. To render final decision on all appeals and claims that may arise and act as judge of the elections to all elective offices, and of plebiscites and referendums. (Art. 322) - SpanishHabrá una Corte Electoral que tendrá las siguientes facultades, además de las que se establecen en la Sección III y las que le señale la ley:
A. Conocer en todo lo relacionado con los actos y procedimientos electorales.
B. Ejercer la superintendencia directiva, correccional, consultiva y económica sobre los órganos electorales.
C. Decidir en última instancia sobre todas las apelaciones y reclamos que se produzcan, y ser juez de las elecciones de todos los cargos electivos, de los actos de plebiscito y referéndum. (Art. 322)