The State Security Forces and Bodies have opened an investigation for an alleged fraud The request for voting by mail in Melilla ends with 11,707 requests and for the second 7.8% have been validated The Government delegate in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, has assured this Friday that “clear” elections can be held within the autonomous metropolis on 28-M
The course of to request a vote by mail in Melilla ended this Thursday with 11,707 functions registered, though thus far solely the ballots of 921 folks have been validated, 7.8% of the entire, in accordance with knowledge supplied by the Ministry of the Interior.
The Government delegate in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, has assured this Friday that “clear” elections can be held within the autonomous metropolis on 28-M after the launch of a police investigation for potential electoral fraud via the alleged buy of votes by mail, whose requests have skyrocketed in these elections.
At the shut of yesterday Thursday, which was the final day to request a vote by mail, a complete of 11,707 folks had requested a vote by mail in Melilla. According to the Interior, for the second – with knowledge from this Friday at 12:00 midday – solely 921 folks have executed and submitted that vote by mail for Melilla, 7.8% of the requests.
The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has determined to increase by someday, till May 25, the deadline for folks with the precise to vote who’ve requested to resort to this voting formulation within the native and regional elections on the twenty eighth to deposit their votes at submit workplaces. For this purpose, the variety of validated votes can be up to date on successive days.
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The State Security Forces and Corps have opened an investigation for alleged fraud and the Melilla choose has ordered the identification of any one who goes to the Post Office with multiple vote, in accordance with sources from the investigation affirm to Europa Press.
There are already dozens of individuals recognized and the investigation by the choose of Melilla investigates two plots that allegedly would have paid between 50 and 200 euros for every irregular vote, though these information are nonetheless underneath police evaluation with out ruling out their potential reference to political formations.
With knowledge as much as yesterday, Thursday, in Ceuta, the opposite autonomous metropolis, there are 1,991 functions to vote by mail (3.3% of the census), whereas the nationwide whole exceeded a million functions (2.84% of the census). In this fashion, Melilla multiplies by seven the info of the nationwide common.
The Zone Electoral Board agreed that, as of this Thursday, voters by mail in Melilla need to personally take the envelope with their poll to the Post Office and current their DNI, passport or different legitimate doc earlier than casting the poll. The measure has had the opposition of CPM, the Melilla social gathering led by Mustafa Aberchán.
In an interview on TVE collected by Europa Press, the Government delegate in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, requested for warning on Thursday in order that the police investigation is carried out till the tip, including that, “if true”, the alleged irregularities “could also be round 20%” of a complete census of virtually 55,000 voters, which might have an effect on a 3rd of the representatives of the Assembly.
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