TSE notifies Neto Bran and Roberto Arzú that they will not be registered by "early campaign"
The Citizens Registry (RC) of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) notified this Friday, October 28, the non-registration of the mayor Neto Bran and former president Roberto Arzú, for illegal propaganda, although the decision is appealable.
According to the notice, Both continued with the “early campaign”, despite the warning to suspend it to avoid not being registered as candidates in the 2023 elections.
In the case of Bran, the illegal propaganda continued until May 27 and in the case of Arzú until July 28, that is, months after the warning was issued.
For this reason, the RC considered that both fell into “illegal propaganda” before the call for elections to be held next January.
The Electoral and Political Parties Law (LEPP), in article 94 Bis “Illegal propaganda of individual persons”, orders that those who campaign in a personal capacity for positions of popular election advertising their image, in the different social media, before the official call for elections will not be registered as a candidate, without prejudice to the sanctions that proceed against the political organization. Prior to the sanction, the procedure established in the regulation must be exhausted.“.
They will present supporting evidence
From the notification to the mayor of Mixco, the spokesperson for the Mixco commune, Mynor Espinoza, reported that no advance campaign has been carried out, so they will comply with due process and present the necessary evidence.
“There is no evidence to confirm that the mayor has promoted himself as a candidate for mayor or president,” he said.
“I never showed up to promote in my podcast, but I made a dream of being a presenter come true… People like me who left the guacal had a space with the internet,” the former mayor justified the activity he carried out.
“The resolution of the TSE does not correspond to what I signed in a declaration and declared that I have not committed a crime in an early campaign. I have not committed any crime“, he added. He also insisted that they present all appeals “because they deny him his right to choose and be elected.”
In the case of Roberto Arzú, his communication team offered to contact the legal team to inform them about the procedure to follow. Later, on Twitter, he summoned the media for Saturday, October 29 to report “why Alejandro Giammattei wants to block my candidacy but he is not going to achieve it.”
On this day, the Registry of Citizens of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) notified the following: pic.twitter.com/T5UHc3HMlo
— TSE Guatemala (@TSEGuatemala) October 28, 2022
The warning
In the resolution of the Citizen Registry of the TSE of March 2022, it detailed that the warning against Bran was for the podcast (Anglicism equivalent to broadcast or multimedia file) that the mayor of Mixco broadcasts since July 31, 2021, where he conducts interviews with characters and where topics are addressed according to the guest’s field of work. He adds that they are broadcast through the Spotify and Facebook platforms.
In the case of Roberto Arzú, obeys the video that he spread through the Twitter platform by publications delivering water pipes in different communities, wearing a white cap with the legend “HagamosGrandeGuate“. In these, according to the TSE, there are “voluntary or involuntary messages creating a line of political trajectory for the sake of the next General Elections of 2021.
