Isabel Rodríguez had been identified by the PP, whereas Pere Aragonès was denounced by Ciudadanos, and in each instances the JEC has refused to open a disciplinary file in opposition to them. For all these causes, the JEC rejects the PP’s declare to open a disciplinary file however does declare Isabel Rodríguez Regarding Pere Aragonès, whose press convention after the Government assembly on April 11 was denounced by Ciudadanos, the JEC confirms that the president of the Generalitat launched slogans and slogans utilized by the pro-independence teams
The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has issued two resolutions this Wednesday by which it warns the Minister Spokesperson for the Government, Isabel Rodríguez, and the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, for violating their responsibility of neutrality in public statements throughout the interval electoral, which was opened in the beginning of the month by the decision of municipal and regional governments on May 28.
Isabel Rodríguez had been identified by the PP, whereas Pere Aragonès was denounced by Ciudadanos, and in each instances the JEC has refused to open a disciplinary file in opposition to them, but it surely has urged them to not repeat such statements of their subsequent institutional acts.
As the arbitration physique recollects, article 50.2 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) prohibits, from the time the elections are referred to as till they’re held, “any act organized or financed, immediately or not directly, by the general public powers that incorporates allusions to the accomplishments or achievements obtained by public authorities”, which should be utilized along with the constitutional rules of equality within the train of the appropriate to passive suffrage and neutrality of public powers.
Electoral demonstrations from Moncloa
In the case of the Government Spokesperson, the PP denounced her press convention after the Council of Ministers on April 4, the primary after the elections had been referred to as, and the JEC admits that Isabel Rodríguez “broke” that responsibility of neutrality with “evaluative manifestations of achievements when it comes to employment, with an electoral connotation”, when commenting on the unemployment knowledge.
In its decision, collected by Europa Press, it additionally reproaches the minister for utilizing an institutional name from Moncloa to make “brazenly important assessments of the angle of the chief of the primary opposition celebration”, though it doesn’t respect premeditation, however moderately takes under consideration He says that he went to questions from journalists.
For all these causes, the JEC rejects the PP’s declare to open a disciplinary file however does demand that Isabel Rodríguez “prolong her diligence in future institutional acts to keep away from violating the precept of neutrality that public powers are obliged to respect throughout the electoral course of “and to challenge the suitable directions to take away from the institutional web site these demonstrations of April 4 branded as electoralists.
As for Pere Aragonès, whose press convention after the Government assembly on April 11 was denounced by Ciudadanos, the JEC confirms that the president of the Generalitat launched slogans and slogans utilized by the pro-independence formations as “a message to legitimize the trigger separatist”, “the declare that there’s a proper to determine to resolve this battle by way of a referendum”, or the alleged existence of “victims of a reprisal carried out by the State”.
“With such appreciations, that are brazenly rejected by different political formations, these theses are taken as a right and a picture of victimization of their supporters is generated, all of which violates the responsibility of neutrality and objectivity imposed on public authorities, as well as of being prone to favor the mobilization of the vote for the good thing about part of the formations”, he concludes.
The Generalitat, alienated with some events in opposition to all
In his opinion, these “partisan” demonstrations are “slogans habitually used of their rallies by these political forces that defend that choice” and, by disseminating them in the midst of an act of an institutional nature, the President of the Generalitat “aligns himself with the aspect of the claims of a bunch of residents to the inevitable exclusion of the remaining, which is just incompatible with the responsibility of objectivity and neutrality of the general public authorities”.
As a big a part of these evaluations emerged on the press convention, the JEC doesn’t open a disciplinary file in opposition to Aragonès both, but it surely already warns him to not incur in violations of the precept of neutrality once more and that these statements be faraway from the institutional web site of the Generalitat.
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