He was convicted of corruption of minors, but is eligible to be a candidate

This Saturday, it was confirmed that the Electoral Justice authorized Juan Rosario Mazzone from Salta to be a candidate in the provincial elections on May 14. The controversy of his candidacy comes from the hand of the fact that in 2015 he was removed from the district of El Bordo after photos of him were leaked at a party at his home with half-naked minors. Despite what happened, he will now try to recover his position in the municipality located in the province of Salta.In continuity with the judicial case he faced, two years after his dismissal he was convicted of corruption of minors. During his defense, he defined himself as the victim of an “opposition political operation” and argued that he did not know the age of the teenagers who were in his home. Meanwhile, from the Electoral Tribunal, it was explained that “the considerations made regarding the ethical or moral quality of a person cannot be evaluated by this Court to prevent his candidacy, in the sense that it is not possible to create requirements or impediments for the exercise of political rights that the law does not provide for nor the Constitution authorizes.” In this way, although the Salta law establishes that “those convicted by judicial sentence in the second instance may not be candidates for provincial and municipal elective public office while the sentence lasts,” Mazzone would be enabled, since the magistrates, in dialogue with the newspaper El Tribuno, assured that the term of the sentence has already been served.

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