Bitter Christmas in Villamanín, the Leonese town which, on December 22, celebrated with emotion the smile of El Gordo to the town. Since that day, when it was even announced that the festivities would be extended, the 700 inhabitants of this place … small town of León, they experienced these important dates knowing that they were ending the year in style. The surprise came when collecting the prize, since the tickets sold and the tenths allocated for each taco do not coincide. 89 tenths of 79432 arrived at the municipality and the Commission sold 15 series in the form of five euro shares.
A few days after the draw, after contacting the Lottery administration and the bank, a block of ballots without having 10 tenths of the associated number awarded and four million euros are missing that no one can follow, according to Leonotias.
Faced with this situation, the festivals commission has called an urgent meeting this Friday at 6:00 p.m. with the residents of Villamanín to find a solution. “It will be necessary provide voting number corresponding to the purposes of registering participants,” they add in the press release.
Options at the meeting
The proposed solution is that each winning ballot charge 6% less to make up for the missing money on these ten tenths sold. According to the calculations, this means that each winning entry will receive around 5,000 euros less than the prize, which is around 80,000, given that each ticket costs 5 euros, of which 4 were wagered.
At this afternoon’s meeting, each winner must voteby ballot – which means that if a neighbor has more than one, he will have more votes – what is the next step. Some choose, as this media reports, to file a complaint and leave this “error” as an anecdote. Other neighbors are betting on recourse to justice.
“This is not a number we subscribe to. The lottery gives us the one it wants every year”, Belén Plaza, member of the Celebrations Commission of the Leonese town of Villamanín, told ABC on the 22nd. The organization went to a usual point of sale, in La Pola del Gordón, to choose the number.
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