The PSOE requested this Sunday the review of all invalid votes in Madrid in order to recover its eleventh parliamentarian and, consequently, snatch from the Popular Party the 16th deputy won in the capital in the last hours thanks to the external vote. A request denied by the provincial Electoral Board that does not close the battle for the seat in the region, since the party will submit its complaint to the Central Electoral Board.
The Socialists had redoubled their efforts by requesting the Zone Electoral Board to review the 30,000 votes classified as null on July 23, which represent 0.84% of the total for the region.. A strategy that the PSOE clung to given the minimal distance that exists with the PP: barely 1,323 ballots separate them from once again having a seat that seems decisive for the future of the country and that does not force Pedro Sánchez to depend on the yes of Junts parliamentarians.
However, as eldiario.es has advanced, the Electoral Board of the Zone knocks down any option of the Socialists. In any case, PSOE sources are already advancing that the party “will ask the Central Electoral Board to open up and review the more than 30,000 null votes accumulated in Madrid.”
In the PP they began to regain hope late on Friday, when the first information arrived that Alberto Núñez Feijóo would win one more parliamentarian for Madrid. The balances change completely with this seat: the block of the left and that of the right go to a tie of 171 deputies, not including the CC or the seven from Junts in the sum, who are the ones who will have the last word on who will be the future president, or if Spain appears again at the polls.
In the letter presented by socialist representatives before the Provincial Electoral Board, the PSOE stated that the “importance” that the recovery of its 11th seat for Madrid could have on the final result of the vote “justifies the opening and review of all the envelopes of the scrutiny where invalid votes must be recorded”.
The request for a recount of invalid votes is a common practice in situations of maximum equality between parties, in the same way that most formations demand the manual recount of the total votes to check the result.. The most recent case of a request for a recount of invalid votes was, as explained by the PSOE, at the request of the PP in the Madrid municipality of Alcorcón after 28-M. However, in this case the Electoral Board considers that there is no irregularity in the process that
In fact, as EL MUNDO recounts this Sunday, the Madrid PP, led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, designed an operation of 30 people on the same electoral night dedicated in recent days to recounting the result in Madrid vote by vote to deal with to win the coveted seat 16.
A more than symbolic victory not only for the PP, but as a whole for the entire block on the right, since the parliamentarian who accesses Congress thanks to this change is Carlos García Adanero, a man of consensus for the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos during the last legislature, expelled from UPN together with Sergio Sayas after breaking the voting discipline in the parliamentary vote on the labor reform and showing himself against the norm.