Cindy Portal, Deputy Minister of Diaspora and Human Migration. /@Cindy Portal
Deputy Minister of Diaspora and Human Movement Cindy Portal said this Friday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will allow the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) to use the Diplomatic and Consular Headquarters to serve as a voting center in the upcoming 2024 elections. claimed.
The official said in an interview with radio YSKL that the court “made the headquarters available,” but that it is the Tokyo Stock Exchange that chooses which facilities to designate as vote centers.
We at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are available and will make our diplomatic and consular offices available if our space is to be used as a vote center. Location and approval are subject to the election calendar presented by TSE. “
– Cindy Portal, Deputy Minister for Diaspora and Human Mobility.
Deputy Minister Portal said there are now 47 embassies and 41 consulates, with a total of 91 diplomatic headquarters. By the end of 2023, 104 performances are planned around the world. In addition to these diplomatic offices, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has 53 passport delivery offices and plans to open 24 new offices and add another 77. In total, 181 offices will be available.
A special law for the exercise of suffrage decrees that Salvadorans abroad can vote with a unique identity card (DUI) and current and expired passports. Those residing abroad will conduct remote electronic voting and their ballots will be allocated in the Department of San Salvador. El Salvador residents vote electronically in person.
The TSE is required to create a voter register by adding duis data issued by the National Register of Natural Persons (RNPN) to passports issued by the Directorate General of Immigration and Foreign Affairs and passports issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
training
Officials said they have requested training for diplomatic headquarters officials on the overseas voting process that will take place in 2024. They plan to train him in two stages. .
We want to support TSE. They are going to do the training exactly. Because people asked me. I told them, “I’m going to do this in two stages. , then comes direct training to the Diaspora. – Cindy Portal, Deputy Minister for Diaspora and Human Mobility.
Source: Diario Elmundo
