Fernando Cajas
As if it were a horror movie, the Public Ministry, MP, now attacks the judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE. These seem to be drowning kicks. However, we must analyze how this desperate action fits into the emergency plan of the Corrupt Pact, which fundamentally wants to build a false narrative that allows it to permeate into the minds of the unwary that there was fraud in the last presidential elections. They, the MP, know clearly that there was no fraud, that the thing about false signatures is a tall tale, that the fact that the polling station prosecutors committed fraud is another invention. Entangled in their lies, they now come out with a ridiculous case that, although it is totally administrative, the Corrupt Pact will put it in the imaginary as if there was fraud in the elections.
The TSE acquired a computer system for the transmission of electoral results, which they called TREP: Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results. The MP’s new “argument” is that there was fraud, anomalies and they say that there was also abuse of authority. For a change, the MP has not given more information about this new attack, but in his brief bulletin they indicate that the TSE magistrates could have committed the crime of abuse of authority by having signed the TREP administrative contract. We don’t know that. The administrative rules of the TSE and its purchasing mechanism would have to be reviewed. It is very difficult for magistrates to be directly involved in the purchase of services since there is an administrative structure that is in charge of these matters and who would eventually be responsible for the alleged fraud.
But the MP’s narrative highlights the word fraud. If there was a problem in the acquisition of the TREP, this would be a possible overvaluation, but this alleged fraud has nothing to do with electoral fraud. However, in the tabloid news programs, in the guidelines that the Corrupt Pact gives to its netcenters, those who receive privileged information directly from the MP are sold the idea of electoral fraud due to the TREP. These attempt to construct the narrative of electoral fraud associated with the TREP. For this, the TSE magistrates have been categorical and have said that the TREP has no binding character with the results of the election. The TREP does not affect the results of the election.
But that clarification is not enough for the MP. These, with bombs and lightning, have asked that the immunity of the TSE magistrates be removed, alleging that the TREP usurps the TSE’s own functions, for God’s sake! If the TREP is not binding. If the entire electoral process was developed in accordance with the Electoral Law of Political Parties, if the documentation is all on paper, all; then it could be that the investigators of the Public Ministry do not understand that the TREP is a data transmission system preliminary and that only the paper results of the electoral boards are binding for the final results.
So the narrative that the Corrupt Pact wants to build is the same one they tried to build with the fake signatures, the deceased who voted, that Bernardo Arévalo was Uruguayan, that the prosecutors changed votes and now that the TREP changed the results of the choice. In that sense, the MP has become the path followed by the Corrupt Pact to invent lies, to ask corrupt judges for illegal search warrants.
If there is a usurper in this electoral process, it has not been the TREP but rather the MP interfering and wanting to change the results of the presidential election, usurping functions of the TSE and thereby violating the Constitution. Now, what is interesting is the speed with which a simple complaint from an anonymous citizen, they themselves initiate investigations and now request the withdrawal of immunity from the magistrates. But for a change, in his careers the MP forgot that the body in charge of ensuring the proper use of the State’s financial resources is the Comptroller General of Accounts, so it is the Comptroller’s Office that should have identified this alleged fraud, embezzlement or embezzlement. Now they have requested the withdrawal of the immunity of the judges and they do not even have a financial audit of the TREP. What will the MP do? The same thing he has done with Judge Orellana, asking him for illegal orders, he will do the same, he will ask the Comptroller’s Office to do an emergency audit and find that “finding”, how ridiculous.
