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El Salvador: TSE to set up call center for the diaspora

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October 4 |

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) will set up a call center so that Salvadorans living abroad can ask their doubts to trained agents about electronic voting and the elections of February 4, 2024, in which nationals will be able to participate.

“We have had a meeting with the team in charge of voting abroad and we are making progress. We are about to announce a call center in which we will be enabling lines to consult any concerns of Salvadorans abroad who have any doubts. In the next few days we will be announcing it”, said Noel Orellana, magistrate of the TSE, to “Diario El Salvador”.

The official indicated that this action is part of the TSE’s commitment to facilitate access to the vote to the diaspora, in addition to clearly informing them of the rights now protected by the Special Law for the Exercise of Suffrage Abroad, so that on election day the compatriots do not have any inconvenience to cast their vote.

“It is going to be a permanent line, and we were already presented with advances, mainly how the electoral registry is and the purging that has been done based on the faculties given to us by the law. We also have the voting centers that are going to be designated, we are making progress”, stated Magistrate Orellana.
In addition, the TSE has promised to create audiovisual material to be broadcasted in channels that reach the diaspora, on the use of the electronic voting system to cast the vote via internet.

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“The National Government has decided to extend the validity of the safe-conduct pass for an additional seventy-two (72) hours, until the end of Thursday, April 3, 2025,” the Panamanian Foreign Ministry stated in a communiqué. The original permit was set to expire Monday at midnight (05:00 GMT on Tuesday).

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