Santo Domingo.– The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) declared itself incompetent to hear a contentious appeal for annulment filed against the regulation of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) that establishes the procedure for the registration of polling firms or companies and the publication of polls in electoral matters, and therefore referred the file to the Constitutional Court.
The action was filed against resolution no. 14-2026, issued by the JCE on May 22, 2026, through which the aforementioned regulation was approved.
In its decision, the TSE concluded that the claim raised constitutes an action of concentrated control of constitutionality over a regulatory provision, a competence that, in accordance with the legal system, corresponds exclusively to the Constitutional Court.
The ruling was adopted by the president of the TSE, Ygnacio Pascual Camacho Hidalgo, together with the titular judges Fernando Fernández Cruz and Rafaelina Peralta Arias.
With this decision, the file will be referred to the Constitutional Court, which will be the body in charge of determining whether the challenged regulation complies with the Constitution or not.
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This resolution renders the knowledge of the appeal before the Superior Electoral Court void and transfers the process to the constitutional jurisdiction, where the analysis of the challenge filed against the regulations approved by the Central Electoral Board will continue.
