Invalidating Irregularities in an Electoral Process and its Nullity According to the Experience of the Spanish Constitutional Court
In the current scenario of controversy about the election annulment due to the breach of constitutional principles, this article underlines the importance of the principle of electoral legality. The author asks himself about the kind of irregularities that should determine the cancellatin of the ele...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Mexicana de Derecho Electoral |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/10047 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/derecho-electoral/article/view/10047 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Elections irregularities nullity invalidity electoral justice elecciones irregularidades nulidades invalidez justicia electoral |
| Resumo: | In the current scenario of controversy about the election annulment due to the breach of constitutional principles, this article underlines the importance of the principle of electoral legality. The author asks himself about the kind of irregularities that should determine the cancellatin of the election and which type of measures should be taken in that case. In spite of the clear differences between Mexican and Spanish models —because of the role of the latter “Junta Electoral Central” during electoral campaigns—, the legal phenomenon is basically the same, and hence, a comparison is possible. The paper provides systematic information of the long Spanish experience on judicial review of electoral irregularities and conflicts. Here, we can find how constitutional jurisprudence has used two criteria at the same time: First, a quantitative approach (which is incumbent when the irregularity has actually changed the electoral outcome; which is a more common interpretation); and second, a new criteria related to the type of the irregularity. Finally, some arguments about the need on constitutionally congruent interpretation of electoral laws is presented. |
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