translated from Spanish: Controversy in RD elections: candidate is elected out of the

gender quota adjustment fee

This weekend were the elections of democratic revolution, where the list led by the Deputy Catalina Pérez won the backroom with 50.9% of the vote, leaving second to the ready led po r Javiera stop.
A triumph which left standing the world third-party claimant and regionalist party broad front anchor, but that was not without controversy, since a candidate was out of his office because of the procedure of correction of gender.
The Supreme Court said failed the choice of Bethlehem Villagran, who outpointed David Andrade, by 70 votes in the election for the southern Vice President of RD.
In the first instance the TS had declared winner to Villagran. But to deliver the results of the political Council, the tribunal applied the correction of gender in the only area where competed a man against a woman, while in other zonal had lower margin between the candidates.
RD inside this modification has caused noise to keep the quota of 60/40 between men and women.
They claim that this does not appear in the law of quotas which is an interpretation of the Supreme Court and expected the repetition of elections of Vice-Chairs.

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