Lawsuit filed to force DeSantis to call special election for vacant Miami-Dade seat

More than a month after Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a state House member to serve as Miami-Dade County clerk of court and comptroller, a newly filed lawsuit seeks to force him to call a special election to fill the legislative seat.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Leon County circuit court, contends that DeSantis should be required to call a special general election in Miami-Dade’s House District 118 “no later than” Nov. 21 to replace former Rep. Juan Alfonso Fernandez-Barquin, a Republican.

The House is scheduled to start holding committee meetings during the week of Sept. 18 in advance of the 2024 legislative session, which will start in January.

“His [DeSantis’] inability to do his duty leaves the constituents of District 118 without representation and threatens to deprive them of a voice in the halls of the People’s House during the interim committee weeks that begin in less than nine weeks and the 2024 session afterward,” said the lawsuit, filed by ACLU Foundation of Florida attorneys on behalf of plaintiff Layssa Zamora, a voter in the district.

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