The Central Electoral Board does not see it feasible to review the 30,000 null votes that the PSOE challenges

there will be no changes. The Central Electoral Board (JEC) does not see it as feasible to review the 30,000 null votes that the PSOE claimed so as not to definitively lose its twelfth seat in Madrid. A key chair, since the achievement of this by the PP leaves a climate of uncertainty for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.

After the Provincial Board of Madrid did not agree to carry out the review of these thousands of invalid Madrid ballots, the PSOE raised its demand to the JEC. Despite this, everything indicates that the highest instance of the electoral administration will not do so either, because to make such a request, he argues, some evidence of specific rulings must be presented.

In addition, it highlights that in many agreements where there is a general challenge such as the one sought by the PSOE, they do not have a long way to go.. Along these lines, they also state that null votes that have been protested at the polling stations would normally be reviewed.. If not, it's hard.

To support its decision, which will become official after the meeting on Thursday, August 3 at 11:30 a.m., the body cites as a precedent the case that involved Vox and the elections on May 28. Santiago Abascal's party filed an appeal against the Agreement of the Barcelona Zone Electoral Board on the scrutiny of the Ciudad Condal.

The claim of the requirement was that it be agreed to “repeat the general scrutiny of the city of Barcelona ordering to open the envelopes of each and every one of the invalid votes for examination and verification, considering as valid those votes in which the vote of VOX is recorded. with any of the two ballots validated by the Electoral Board”.

The JEC refused to recount the invalid votes, alleging: “What the appellant party intends is to repeat the scrutiny already carried out by the polling stations, a claim that has been repeatedly rejected by the Central Electoral Board when sufficient evidence of irregularities in the contested votes is not adduced. “. Something that, according to the organ, added to the “insufficient” reasons that Vox gave to carry out this review.

A DIFFERENTIAL SEAT

This intensity that the PSOE is printing on the count of the 30,000 votes in Madrid is key to understanding the future governability of Spain. And it is that with only 1,323 supports that separate the socialists from the popular ones in the province, from Ferraz all legal resources are being exhausted to recover the one that is now in the power of Carlos García Adanero.

An armchair whose history began when last Friday the foreign vote granted the deputy 137 to the PP. As a result of this increase, the ideological blocs that will take shape on August 17, the date on which the Congress is constituted, remain tied at 171. On the one hand, there is the one made up of PP (137), Vox (33) and UPN (1). In the other converge forces such as PSOE (121), Sumar (31), ERC (7), EH Bildu (6), PNV (5) and BNG (1).

Two formations remain in political limbo: the Canary Islands Coalition (1), whose future representative in the Lower House, Cristina Valido, declared this Monday on Cadena Ser that they are willing to maintain a “bilateral negotiation” with either of the two formations majority as long as “Canaries and their problems” are on the table. Although with two red lines: “the extreme right and the extreme left”, which eradicates Vox and Sumar from the equation.

The other group is Junts. Carles Puigdemont's party, which has 7 deputies and will foreseeably have the key to decide whether to make Sánchez president. A key, unless the Canary Coalition votes in favor of the socialist leader, which only fits yes. This would mean, as the parliamentary spokesperson for the independence party, Miriam Nogueras, already said, that Pedro Sánchez will not get that support “in exchange for nothing.”