TSE confirms postponement of the election in Macapá; vote for December 27 | Amapá

The first round throughout the country is scheduled for this Sunday (15) and the second, for the next 29. The new electoral dates have not been defined in Macapá, but this Thursday’s decision establishes that the electoral process in the city must take place in 2020. (read below).

According to the TSE, On December 27, the last Sunday of the year, the deadline for extending current mandates expires, which is prohibited by the Constitution.

Barroso ordered the postponement of the election on Wednesday night (11), in response to a request from the Regional Electoral Tribunal (TRE) of Amapá.

The postponement request is due to reflections of restrictions on power supply in the state, which began last week after a blackout caused by a fire at a substation.

On Thursday (12), ten days after the blackout, the power supply was still not normalized in Amapá. In recent days, the population has lived with a rotation system, in which access to energy is guaranteed only part of the day.

TRE-AP argued that the postponement should take place “until the regular restoration of electricity” in the municipality.

The request does not refer to the other municipalities of the state because TRE-AP considered that in other localities “the security situation of the voter can be kept under control, with the security apparatus currently available.”

In the decision, Barroso pointed out that the definition of the new dates for the first and second rounds in Macapá would be done in a “later act.”

The president of the TSE also determined that “measures must be taken to exclude the loading of the ballot boxes throughout the municipality, in order to prevent them from coming into operation” on the 15th.

In his vote, Minister Luís Barroso reiterated that there is a situation of recognized public calamity in Macapá.

“I realized that there was consensus on the risks of holding the elections this Sunday, due to the instability in the electricity supply, the level of crime and even signs of social unrest,” he said.

See the report below, on November 11, dealing with protests by residents in Amapá due to lack of power.

According to the decision, the electoral process in Macapá should conclude this year. The suggestion was made by the Electoral Deputy Attorney General Renato Brill de Góes and reiterated by the Minister Alexandre de Moraes.

“We must not leave a window for the mandate to be extended,” said the minister. “The state of Amapá has to resolve, we cannot let the state understand that it can postpone this.”