Can Claimants Force Election Date Postponement?  

So, can Enriquez and the other claimants get the High Court to postpone the elections? Enriquez says we’ll have to wait and see. However, he argues that if the election goes ahead without redistricting, the results would be fraudulent.

 

Jeremy Enriquez, Claimant

“In this case, in a sense when the prime minister said in his statement, something to the effect that we are a model democracy, that is a blatant lie. We are calling an election that is in violation of the constitution. The prime minister promised the beginning of this term that he is going to find ways to rectify that situation and we are going back with the same thing we are starting with, the status qou.”

 

Reporter

In your mind, what should be happening?

 

Jeremy Enriquez

“What I am grateful for is that people are more aware. A lot of people are not aware that they are being taken advantage of over and over. So hopefully more organizations, more people will register their opposition to this kind of fraudulent election and not participate. That is a tall order but what we also hope for is that we will continue this thought he court process even after the election.”

 

Reporter

So do you have any hope of forcing the government to postpone the election based on the lack of redistricting.

 

Jeremy Enriquez

“This is unfolding moment by moment and we are waiting to see what the judges say. I don’t want to preempt that so we will have to wait and see. The bottom line is that there has been no resolution to redistricting and we are entering an illegal election with all the gross, severe malapportionment of electoral divisions.”

 

Paul Lopez

What do you advise people to do?

 

Jeremy Enriquez

“I am not voting, so I am encouraging people not to vote. And if we have people in mass not to do that it could register our voice and what we feel about the election. Secondly, any observer of our electoral process, whether OAS, or Common Wealth, I want them to know already that they are coming to observe something fraudulent.”