The penultimate day of the electoral campaign Extremadura revolves around the investigation into three thefts committed in post offices in the province of Badajoz, which occurred last night. In one of them, in the municipality of Badajoz, Fuente de … Cantos, the thieves took away the contents of the safe: €14,000 in cash and 124 votes cast by mail. In the afternoon, the charred remains of the said safe appeared near the city and the Electoral Council confirmed that voters will be able to vote again.
After learning of the facts, reported by the Popular Party early this Thursday and which aroused enormous controversy inside and outside Extremadura, theThe Civil Guard has decided to increase security in post offices. According to investigative sources, a message was distributed, via Groupwise, calling for increased surveillance, mainly in localities that accumulate a large number of votes.
Benemérita herself confirmed that in recent days, in addition to these three thefts, there had been two others in the offices of Talavera la Real and Villafranco del Guadiana. Unreported thefts. They add that, from October to November, outside the electoral period, four other thefts were also reported in offices in the province of Badajoz. Although no hypothesis is excluded, the Civil Guard affirms that everything indicates cases of “common law crime”where the main objective was economic.
The PP assures that “they are stealing democracy”
The person responsible for making the facts known was the general secretary of the Popular Party of the region, Abel Bautista, who described the events as “extremely serious”: “There is someone, in an organized manner“probably more than one, two or three people who, in a coordinated way, entered the Post Office with one goal, which was to vote,” he said.
The PP also launched a call for mobilization and a massive vote next Sunday, to “respond” to the ballot boxes: “I am not asking for a vote for the Popular Party, I am asking for a mobilization from all of Extremadura. All, a few hours later, the popular had already reported incidents with their ballots during postal voting.
President Guardiola, after hearing the news, published a video on social networks denouncing the situation. “They are stealing democracy (…) during fundamental elections”He also denounced the fact that we learned this Wednesday that “citizens who requested to vote by mail did not receive the Popular Party ballot.” “They are destroying the foundations of our freedom. They want to steal our future. “I will not remain silent while the rights of the people of Extremadura are violated,” assured the Cáceres politician, calling “vote massively” so that “our voice is so thunderous that no one can silence it.” “Let them vote for the party they want, but let them exercise our right,” he assured.
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