Panamanian Electoral Justice System. Emphasis on electoral administrative justice

Sistema de Justicia Electoral Panameño. Énfasis en la justicia administrativa electoral

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Carlos Horacio Díaz Díaz
Abstract

This article deals with electoral justice in Panama, its procedures and its guarantees, highlighting its relevance through the content of articles 142 and 143, numeral 3 of the Political Constitution. In the same sense, it shows us the scope and competence of Law 5 of 2016 on electoral processes and claims, as well as crimes, contraventions and electoral offenses established in electoral matters. Culminates the author, making an analysis of the legal framework that regulates the operation of the electoral courts, very specifically the administrative courts.

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Author Biography / See

Carlos Horacio Díaz Díaz, Tribunal Electoral

Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Studies (INED) of the TE. Panamanian. Lawyer and university professor at the Santa María La Antigua Catholic University (USMA) for more than 20 consecutive years (1999-2022). He has Masters in Maritime Law and Electoral Studies. He has been a trial lawyer, assistant magistrate in the Judicial Branch and Electoral Prosecutor in the First Judicial District. He has represented the General Electoral Prosecutor's Office, the USMA and the Electoral Tribunal as a speaker and trainer in various seminars and conferences (national and international), in public institutions, universities and schools. He directed the Center for Democratic Studies (CED) of the Electoral Tribunal, an entity that aimed to strengthen, through education and ethics, democratic processes and values ​​in the Republic of Panama, from its creation in 2014 until August 2019.

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