2023-08-25 15:10:00
The Supreme Court has rejected the request of the PSOE to review more than 30,000 invalid votes obtained in Madrid in the last elections of July 23, considering that the claim does not meet the requirements demanded by the doctrine to carry out the recount requested .
The Prosecutor’s Office supports the request of the PSOE to review all the invalid votes in Madrid on 23J
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“The mere numerical difference in the results that is adduced in this case (1,200 votes) is not a sufficient basis for the review,” says the High Court Holiday Chamber in the sentence in which it dismisses the appeal of the Socialists, against at the discretion of the Prosecutor.
According to the Supreme Court, no arithmetic data or reliable statistical calculations have been provided to verify, even hypothetically, the relevance of the vote review in the final result and in the allocation of the controversial seat, number 16 that the PP won to the detriment of the PSOE.
When the general scrutiny ended with the external vote, which confirmed one more seat for the PP (137), the Socialists went to both the Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid and the Central Electoral Board (JEC) to review the validity of all the invalid votes of the Madrid constituency.
After the rejection of both bodies, the Socialists went to the Supreme Court, which has also dismissed their request in a sentence, against which there is an appeal before the Constitutional Court.
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