According to the complaints introduced, the quantity that the community would have paid can be as much as 200 euros for every vote bought Among these arrested, there are these with an essential position within the plot that was devoted to purchasing votes from deprived individuals The brokers are additionally investigating the potential theft of those votes, both to the postmen who transported them after the voters requested the service by mail
The National Police has arrested the quantity 3 of the Coalition for Melilla (CPM) lists for the May 28 elections, Mohamed Ahmed Al-lal, within the framework of the judicial investigation for an alleged buy of votes by mail within the metropolis autonomous.
This was indicated on Tuesday by sources near the investigation, who added that the individual arrested is likely one of the 9 detainees to this point on this case.
Mohamed Ahmed Al-lal is presently the councilor for Districts, Youth and Citizen Participation within the Melilla authorities and was vice-councillor for New Technologies. In addition to Allal, the son-in-law of the chief of the Coalition for Melilla, Mustafa Aberchán, can also be among the many 9 detainees.
Al-lal is likely one of the 9 arrested to this point on this case towards the alleged buy of votes for the elections subsequent Sunday. The National Police launched an operation in Melilla this Tuesday morning in an operation declared secret by the investigating court docket that has been investigating for days the alleged makes an attempt to purchase votes within the autonomous metropolis. The makes an attempt have been so evident and alarming that for a number of days, members of the National Police and Civil Guard guarded the principle logistics facilities within the space to keep away from incidents.
The arrests have occurred through the early morning. Among these arrested, there are these with an essential position within the plot that was devoted to purchasing votes from deprived individuals; and a few have been collaborators who carried out minor capabilities within the group.
According to the complaints introduced, the quantity that the community would have paid can be as much as 200 euros for every vote bought, with the intention of benefiting one of many political forces that compete within the autonomous metropolis.
The brokers are additionally investigating the potential theft of those votes, both from the postmen who transported them after voters requested the service by mail, or in one of many transit facilities till they’re scrutinized. As this newspaper printed, there have been 43 votes by mail stolen in whole from postmen earlier than they might deposit them within the corresponding put up workplace. In addition, given the custody of the put up workplace brokers and the categorical order to request the DNI of all those that requested to vote by mail, the queues on the put up workplaces disappeared. For this motive, because the maneuvers have been detected, the 16 postmen serving within the space have needed to go to work beneath escort, in an operation that regardless of the searches and arrests right this moment, will proceed till May 25.
The operation stays secret and the formation or formations that will profit from these maneuvers are nonetheless unknown. Given the proximity of the elections, the pinnacle of the trial court docket quantity 2 of Melilla has requested the investigators to be extraordinarily cautious about this info, to keep away from any interference within the electoral processes.
This Thursday, May 18, was the final day to request a vote by mail. According to the Ministry of the Interior, 11,707 individuals had requested it in Melilla, nearly a 3rd of the 34,390 individuals who voted 4 years in the past and round 20% of the whole electoral roll of the autonomous metropolis, the place 55,000 voters are registered. That 20% of requests for voting by mail don’t have anything to do with the figures for the remainder of the nation, the place requests of this kind are 3% on common. In the case of the opposite autonomous metropolis, Ceuta, the functions are just a little above that nationwide common, with 3.58%, however they’re nonetheless at an astral distance from Melilla. In addition, requests in Melilla have doubled in comparison with 2019, when the proportion stood at 10%, additionally very excessive however not that top.
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