He was asked by Madrid’s legal representation of the Supreme Court to “investigate and confiscate the assets” of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, candidate of the Popular Party for the presidency of the Community of Madrid, for non-payment of the corresponding 2,600 euros. Expenses corresponding to the process of fines imposed on the President of Madrid for the 2021 Madrid election campaign in the institutional acts where he appeared as the leader of the regional executive, in addition to the expenses received.
The Supreme Court in January upheld two fines of 960 euros for Isabel Díaz Ayuso for violating her duty of political neutrality by praising her executive election campaign, in institutional acts of respect for bullfighter Victor Barrio, and by visiting some of the campaign’s artwork. Elections two years ago. Madrid’s request for an embargo on him refers only to the act of respect for the bulls, which is the process in which the group appeared.
The evaluation of the expenses was carried out by the Central Electoral College and by him of Madrid, without the formation of opposition by Dias Ayuso, for which they were approved by the Supreme Court in a decree of April 14. On May 19, the Supreme Court reported that since the payment of 2,000 euros corresponding to the approved cost estimate had not been recorded, it required the representation of Madrid to state what right it had, agreed within a period of 5 days, in addition to a notice to submit the procedure .
Due to the state of the proceedings, the representative of Madrid filed an enforcement action against Isabel Díaz Ayuso, requesting an investigation and corresponding seizure of the assets, repayment of the requested amount and payment of the costs of the proceedings. On top of the €2,000 costs, Madrid calculates that another €600 should be added, which equates to a 30% surcharge.
One of Ayuso’s sanctioned interventions was on April 8, 2021, when Ayuso traveled to the Las Ventas Bullring to unveil a ceramic mural in memory of bullfighter Victor Barrio, who died in 2016. At that time, he announced an agreement with Toro de. The Lydia Foundation for the organization of bullfighting argued that the public in Madrid defended bullfighting with “facts” and blamed the central executive for “putting down” the industry, he said. The fine of the electoral college amounted to 360 euros.
The Supreme Court judges recalled that the constitution and Spanish electoral law oblige public authorities to be neutral, and this included his appearance as regional president during the election campaign.
“We are talking about avoiding the use of the position, which is called an “achievement campaign”, that is, an election claim based on the disclosure of the achievements of the implemented management, which the candidate praises not as such, but as. the head of the public office he holds and the acts in which he engages in such a position,” the Supreme Court explains in its rulings. They remember that in Ayuso’s case, he had already been warned: “He had already unsuccessfully asked the Electoral College to refrain from disseminating messages of electoral content” during this type of act, the Supreme Court lamented.
Ayuso also criticized that these sanctions were disproportionate and the magistrates of the third chamber supported the calculations of the electoral college to impose 360 euros for one violation and 600 euros for another. The Supreme Court ruling also ordered the President of Madrid to pay the costs, an amount that reaches a maximum of 8,000 euros between the two resources.
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The two sanctions of the Central Electoral College refer to the two institutional acts of Isabel Dias Ayuso as Regional President after the opening of the electoral campaign for the May 4, 2021 elections. One of his interventions was on April 8 of the same year when Ayuso left. at the bullring in Las Ventas to unveil a ceramic mural of Victor Barrio, a bullfighter who died in 2016. At that moment he announced an agreement with the Fundación Toro de Lidia to organize a bullfight, he defended that the community of Madrid would defend bullfighting. “with the facts” and blamed the central executive for the “failure” of the industry, he said.
The second sanction comes from attending a rally four days later, again as president of the region, to present the new Iberia plane, where he announced a 1,000 million euro investment in the field of transport for “public-private cooperation”. Finally, on April 16, he visited the works that connect Valdebabas to Madrid Airport to praise projects such as Madrid Nudo Norte or the youth housing plan: “We will be able to build a new health center in this area. said.
The first speech resulted in a sanction of €360 and the second €600, both signed by the Electoral College and now upheld by the Litigation-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court. The judges recalled that the constitution and Spanish electoral law oblige public authorities to be neutral, and this included his appearance as regional president during the election campaign.
“It is a question of avoiding the use of the position, which is called an “achievement campaign”, that is, an election claim based on the disclosure of the achievements of the management carried out and which the candidate praises not as such, but as the head of the public office he holds and the acts in which he engages in such a position “, the Supreme Court explains in its resolutions. They remember that in Ayuso’s case, he had already been warned: “He had already unsuccessfully asked the Electoral College to refrain from disseminating messages of electoral content” during this type of act, the Supreme Court lamented.
Ayuso also criticized that these sanctions were disproportionate and the magistrates of the third chamber supported the calculations of the electoral college to impose 360 euros for one violation and 600 euros for another. The resolution of the Supreme Court also condemns the president of Madrid to pay the costs, an amount that reaches a maximum of 8,000 euros between the two appeals.
Source: El Diario
