The PP once again evokes the specter of the electoral “punch”. This time in Extremadura and for the theft in a post office of a safe which contained 14,000 euros in cash and 124 votes already cast and which later appeared “burned” without money but with the ballot papers scattered around. The PP leader accuses the government of having “concealed theft attempts in other offices last week” and “offers no guarantee” on the cleanliness of the process. His “number two”, Miguel Tellado, directly launched the idea of an operation aimed at “changing the result of the December 21 elections”. Candidate María Guardiola also spoke of the existence of a plot against her.
The PP has a long history of denouncing electoral coups without evidence. Feijóo himself has already encouraged this ghost in 2023. And, before that, in Galicia. In 2009. Still when he is in opposition. During the last legislative elections, Feijóo did not hesitate to question the INE, the CIS, the Indra company or Correos, a public company that he himself chaired between 2000 and 2004.
Feijóo took advantage of the event, still under investigation, to encourage electoral mobilization. “I encourage all Extremaduras to vote en masse this Sunday to defend their freedom and democracy,” he wrote on Twitter.
“The theft of the postal vote of the citizens of Extremadura is an extremely serious event,” Tellado said on his Twitter account. “Someone really has an interest in breaking the rules of the game to change the outcome of the elections,” adds the PP number two, who cites a message from Guardiola in which he also claims that democracy is “stolen”.
“They are stealing our democracy,” also warned the secretary general of the regional PP, Abel Bautista, a message on which the candidate and President of the Council, María Guardiola, insisted.
The Provincial Electoral Council of Badajoz informed Correos that the 124 voters concerned for the theft of the safe from the Fuente de Cantos office, in the province of Badajozthey will be able to vote by mail again. The Civil Guard found the stolen safe near the office, “completely burned,” according to a statement released by Correos. “The cash had been stolen in its entirety, while the votes cast by mail were scattered in its surroundings.”
The offices of two other cities, Torremejía and Santa Amalia, were also victims of thefts, but in neither of these cases was the safe or the postal vote stolen, but rather commercial items and office equipment.
The spokesperson for the PP in the Senate, Alicia García, also spoke of this theft, which “encouraged people to vote en masse to defend their freedom and their democracy”. This is not the first time this has happened. In 2023, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Isabel Díaz Ayuso expressly warned of a possible “punch” in the elections. Feijóo mentioned the involvement of the Post Office, INE and Indra, among other organizations and companies.
The PP calls for the police
This Thursday afternoon, the PP sent a letter to the Central Electoral Commission which modifies the protocol for guarding the postal vote so that “the Forces and Organs of the State” are the ones who assume this task, now entrusted to the Post Office.
In a statement, the PP recalls that it requested on June 23 that “the necessary improvements be adopted to achieve a more transparent and reliable postal voting system” due to “the growing concern of public opinion regarding postal voting”.
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