María Jesús Montero stresses that they are not going to make this matter a “workhorse”
SAN ROQUE (CADIZ), 8 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The acting Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, has assured this Tuesday that they will legally study whether “she has any interest” in adopting any other measure and going to the Supreme Court after the decision of the Central Electoral Board to dismiss the PSOE’s appeal that asked to revoke the scrutiny of the votes cast in Madrid in the general elections on July 23.
Speaking to journalists from San Roque (Cádiz), Montero has indicated that the PSOE is not going to make “any workhorse” out of this matter once the JEC has ruled on this matter.
However, the minister has defended that the PSOE was “in its right” to request the recount of what it has said was “a significant number of votes” that had been declared invalid in Madrid.
The PSOE asked to review all the invalid votes of 23J in Madrid, because according to their calculations, if 4.43% of the 30,200 ballots that were qualified as invalid were validated, the Socialists could “recover” the seat that the PP won after the recount of the foreign vote.
But the Provincial Board of Madrid has already rejected that claim, alleging that it would lead to an “unjustifiable delay” that would “disproportionately” affect the carrying out of the general scrutiny without it being perceived that a review of the invalid votes would alter “the differences that give rise to the end result.” Its conclusion is that the petition was not “legally viable” and is only based on “unfounded speculation, based on statistical evaluations.”
The Socialists did not accept that resolution and resorted to the Central Electoral Board which, in a meeting held this Monday, once again denied its claim to review the count of invalid votes.
According to the resolution of the JEC, collected by Europa Press, to adopt “a decision as serious” as reviewing the general scrutiny made by the Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid “it is necessary to invoke weighty arguments”, and instead stresses that from the PSOE “no reason or indication of irregularity is given” in the treatment of invalid votes, and the procedure followed is not even questioned.
With his decision, the scrutiny carried out by the Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid is maintained, which can proceed to the proclamation of results. From now on, it is only possible to file this contentious-administrative appeal before the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court within a period of two months, but the PSOE has to determine if it is interested.
