The Provincial Electoral Commission of Badajoz informed Correos that the 124 voters affected by the theft of the office safe Fountain of Songs (Badajoz) will once again be able to vote by mail. The Civil Guard is already investigating the events. “Everything indicates”, according to the Armed Institute, that it is a theft of money, it would therefore be a common law crime.
In its resolution, the Provincial Electoral Council of Badajoz informs that it is authorized the issuance of duplicates of electoral materials by the Provincial Delegation of the Electoral Census Office of Badajoz, to ensure their delivery to those interested, so that they can vote again by correspondence.
Following the resolution, Correos communicates with the voters concerned and has organized an extraordinary arrangement to proceed with the immediate delivery of the original documentation and the admission of the votes cast through the postmen, reports the postal entity in a press release, reports Europa Press.
In the early hours of this Thursday, the Fuente de Cantos Post Office, Saint Amalia And Torremejia They were “attacked by criminals seeking to steal cash and commercial items,” the note said. However, it was only in Fuente de Cantos that the thieves managed to snatch the safe and take away all its contents, which, in addition to cash, included 124 votes cast by mail.
The PP candidate for Sunday’s elections ExtremaduraMaría Guardiola, warned that “they are stealing our democracy before our eyes”. Through his social media profile, Guardiola emphasized that “there are three days left before decisive elections and someone wants us Extremadurans not to have the right to decide.”
In addition to the theft in Fuente de Cantos, they attempted the same theft this morning in two other towns, Torremejía and Santa Amalia, also in the province of Badajoz. Apparently, in the latter two cases, the safes were empty. Added to this is another episode, also at dawn, Monday, in the office of Talavera la Real.
The director of the last branch attacked, that of Fuente de Cantos, presented the complaint this morning, in which she describes that in addition to postal votes, lottery tickets and cash from the branch were deposited in the safe, as this newspaper was able to confirm. More precisely, there was 14,000 euros.
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Theft of votes in Extremadura: this is how postal voting works and its custody
Theft of votes in Extremadura: this is how postal voting works and its custody
The office, which is at the head of the region, also kept the postal votes received from the cities of Usagre, Welcome and Calzadilla. The mayor of the city, Carmen Pagadorconfirmed that the attack occurred around 1:30 a.m. The thieves deactivated the alarm and forced the main door to gain access to the premises.
According to Correos in a statement, in Fuente de Cantos, the criminals stole the entire safe, which contained cash “and 124 cash issued by mail.” For their part, in Santa Amalia and Torremejía, “only commercial items and office equipment were stolen, without the safe or postal voting being affected”.
The Civil Guard reported that between the months of October and November, four other thefts were also committed in post offices in the province.
Complaint to the electoral commission
Guardiola recalled that his party had denounced the events before the Electoral Council, an event described as “embarrassing” by the President of Extremadura. Thus, he explained, “we discovered yesterday that many citizens who requested postal voting did not receive the Popular Party ballot, it was the only one that was missing.” So, he added, “someone is dynamiting the foundations of our freedom, they want to silence us, they want to choose for us, they want to steal our future and I am certainly not going to remain silent while they trample on the rights of the people of Extremadura, we will not allow it, that is enough.”
Finally, he added that “this Sunday we have the answer in our hands, it is we who decide, so I ask you to vote en masse, that the polls are filled with dignity, that our voice is so thunderous that no one can silence it”, and he added that “on Sunday we defend more than a vote, we defend our freedom, our future and our democracy, that everyone votes for the party for which they want to vote, but that they freely exercise their right to vote, let him not steal our future.”
In the same line as Guardiola, the general secretary of the PP, Abel Bautistadenounced an “organized” strategy aimed at stealing the postal vote in Extremadura: “They are stealing our democracy”. Thus, he indicated that in the early morning, some people “in a coordinated manner” broke into these offices with the aim of stealing these votes and he still does not know if there were other localities affected: “They took the safe with all the postal votes inside”.
In the case of Torremejía, they also entered the office and opened the safe, checking that there were no postal votes, since this city deposits the votes received in the city of Merida. The same situation was repeated in Santa Amalia, where “they couldn’t steal anything either because there was no postal vote.”
For the chef popular, This is an “absolutely organized” strategy, not a specific issue, with the sole objective of “taking the postal vote”.
Bautista urged the political leaders of the affected municipalities to inform the security forces and bodies of the details they have on these events so that an investigation can be opened on Thursday. Likewise, he proposed that an “extraordinary procedure” be established so that citizens affected by the theft of Fuente de Cantos could exercise their right to vote. And he added: “If a democratic state cannot guarantee the right to vote to its citizens, what type of state do we have and what type of democracy do we have? he asked.
Yesterday Wednesday, the PP denounced that several postal voting envelopes did not contain the ballot paper for this party. Bautista stressed that in the last two days “complaints” have been received about this. “On Tuesday there was one case and it could be a mistake, but today there are already four cases and, therefore, it draws our attention, it draws our attention to the fact that all the ballots are arriving, some of them are duplicates, but the one from the People’s Party is not arriving.”
Feijóo: “A fact of extraordinary gravity”
For the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, “the theft of votes at the Post Office is a fact of extraordinary seriousness that does not allow silence. I demand that the government explain how such a thing could have happened, why it also hid attempts at theft in other offices last week and why it does not offer guarantees on such a fundamental aspect to preserve the democratic health of our Nation.”
“I encourage all Extremadurians to vote en masse this Sunday to defend their freedom and democracy,” declared the party leader. popular on social networks.
The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, for his part warned: “We are facing a corrupt mafia which not only lied and betrayed in gaining power, but which was corrupt in the exercise of power and is capable of anything, even modifying the electoral lists and manipulating the electoral results to stay in power. I don’t know what happened with this alleged ballot theft, but I think we can fear the worst.
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