The Central Electoral Board has admitted the complaint filed by Vox against the presenter of

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Mónica López, for giving "ideologically biased information" during the campaign for the Madrid elections on May 4.

A complaint that Santiago Abascal's party presented after the interview with its candidate, Rocío Monasterio, on the morning of public television.

Now the Electoral Board, with eight votes in favor and five against, as EL MUNDO has learned, points out that López breached the principle of neutrality in the campaign during the interview with Monasterio.

An interview that took place just after the Cadena Ser debate where Pablo Iglesias left the studio after questioning the candidate of the radical right-wing formation about the threats he had received by letter.

The presenter decided to ask the Vox candidate if she retracted those assumptions to which Monasterio responded by questioning why she had not asked Iglesias the same question a few days before on the morning of public television about the Vox act in Vallecas, where several members were attacked.

"Don't you think they are separate things, that one thing is to condemn a death threat and not question its veracity and another thing is that you demand that an assault be condemned?" Said López, who at one point in the interview came to affirm sharply to Monastery that the questions in space were decided by her.

Faced with this situation, the formation led by Abascal presented the complaint to the Electoral Board, alleging that the journalist had shown a "very different" attitude with "the rest of the interviewed candidates" and that she had "limited the response capacity" of Monasterio, violating thus "their right to freedom of expression necessary within the framework of an electoral period."

An attitude, they add, "very different from that shown with the rest of the interviewed candidates."

That is the complaint that the Central Electoral Board has now admitted, as this newspaper has learned, and that throughout this afternoon the Provincial Board of Madrid will be in charge of announcing it.

This delay is due, according to sources to this newspaper, because the five members who have voted against admitting the Vox complaint will cast a private vote.

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