The Constitutional Court has decided to allow the review of the PSOE’s appeal, in which it requested the review of up to 30,000 invalid votes in the last general election in Madrid. Magistrates of the second chamber understand the case has “special constitutional importance” and say they will meet next week to study the case, once the prosecution presents the charges. The decision was made by conservatives Enrique Arnaldo and Cesar Tolosa.
PSOE has presented several appeals to try to fight for this seat Could be key in a hypothetical Pedro Sanchez investment. Socialist seat for Madrid 11th, which eventually went to the People’s Party after the official count. Absent after the last vote corresponding to the Electoral Census of Population (CERA).. Alberto Nuñez Feijóo’s PP remained in Congress with 137 representatives and Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE 121 parliamentarians.
The difference in this seat means that a possible inauguration of Sánchez would require the support of not only Sumar, EH Bildu, ERC, PNV and BNG, but also the Junts. Winning this seat number 122 would mean that Carles Puigdemont’s abstention from the party would be enough, not his helpful vote.
Three appeals were rejected
Pedro Sánchez’s party came to power shortly after the final results were announced. He did so to demand a review of the 30,000 baht votes revealed in Madrid after CERA’s audit of the vote and aimed to strip the PP of a seat in the capital.
According to his accounts, the PSOE was 1,323 seats away from winning Madrid’s 11th MP against the PP, a margin so narrow that the Socialists say it warrants a review. A petition that has so far been rejected by the Electoral College of Madrid, the Central Electoral College and finally by the Supreme Court in late August, due to the support the prosecutor’s office has shown for the lawsuit.
The justices said in their letter that this numerical difference between the necessary votes and the void votes “is not a sufficient basis for review,” nor is it preemptive. The counting of votes, recalls the Supreme Court’s sitting room, has representatives from all parties: “They guarantee a proper verification of the votes and have the opportunity to challenge each vote. For this reason, it is impossible to question the work that the law assigns to citizens in the election process,” the Supreme Court wrote.
The prosecutor’s office made a decision in the opposite direction and supported the PSOE’s request “taking into account the rigor of the election result” and “eliminating any reasonable doubts about the true and accurate will of the voters.”
Negotiation with Younts
Currently, the main headache for Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE is the support of Younts and Carles Puigdemont for a hypothetical investment after the expected failure of Alberto Núñez Feijoo, the PP candidate who won the election and does not have the necessary support. to Moncloa.
That same Tuesday, Carles Puigdemont, the former president of Catalonia, who the Supreme Court confirmed was on trial for two crimes over his role in the 2017 sovereignty process, revealed his demands for Pedro Sánchez to become president: a “historic commitment” to independence. A movement that includes amnesty and the speaker of the process.
From the PSOE and Moncloa, Puigdemont’s words were well received, as they understand that, despite specific demands, it is a speech that is far from “opposing the state”, citing and celebrating the “framework of the constitution” in his words. “The way of dialogue is open”. “To solve this situation we have a tool which is dialogue, we have a framework which is the Spanish constitution and a goal which is coexistence,” said Isabel Rodríguez, spokeswoman for the acting executive.
Source: El Diario
