Vox removes the canvas from Calle Alcalá in Madrid after being urged by the Electoral Board of Madrid

MADRID, 27 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Vox has removed around noon this Tuesday the canvas on which the LGTBI flags, the Catalan independence movement, the communist and logos of the feminist movement and the 2030 Agenda were thrown into the trash can, after the request of the Madrid Zone Electoral Board to remove it within a day, considering that it appealed to the vote for the party without being in the electoral campaign yet.

Operators have taken down the canvas from the facade of the building on Calle Alcalá in Madrid where it was located, hours after the arbitration body made the decision following complaints from the PSOE and the Spanish Association against Conversion Therapies.

In the resolution, dated this Monday and collected by Europa Press, the Zone Electoral Board called on Santiago Abascal's party to proceed with its withdrawal and warned him that it would entail "harm" if he did not do so.

However, he agreed not to open a disciplinary file against the party, although he specified that in "case of reiteration in the conduct", he could agree that it be opened.

For the arbitration body, which partially upholds the complaints, the installation of the canvas "is not justified" within the exercise of the ordinary activities of the parties, coalitions or federations. And he considers that the slogan 'Decide what matters' has the "intent to persuade" the voter to support Vox.

"This fact could be admissible if it were done within the website or social networks of the political party, but the installation of a canvas on the facade of a building in Madrid supposes a commercial contract, thus incurring in the prohibition" of article 53 of the electoral law and instructions of the Central Electoral Board (JEC), which prohibit advertising or electoral propaganda in other media before the electoral campaign, according to the agreement.

The Electoral Board of Madrid did not rule on the possible illegality of the content of the canvas, since it is not competent, since its mission -explained- is to supervise the regularity of campaign acts in accordance with electoral regulations, leaving the Criminal justice the prosecution of offenses and the punishment they may have.

The PSOE had denounced Vox before the Central Electoral Board for the placement of the canvas, accusing it of breaching the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) by advertising a campaign act outside the permitted period and also saw a possible hate crime .

For its part, Vox responded by requesting that the complaints be dismissed on the understanding that they had not committed any violation of electoral legislation, for which reason they demanded that they be archived.

Along with the flags that a hand throws into the trash can, words such as freedom, security, family, industry, countryside and borders appear on the canvas, as well as announcing the celebration of a party event last Saturday at IFEMA, the closing of the Vox Ordinary General Assembly. On another side, in red, the words "imposition, insecurity, division, poverty, abandonment and invasion" are shown, the party's logo and its motto: 'Decide what matters'.