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Vox has demanded the direct intervention of the judges to clarify what is the true number of deaths from the coronavirus in Spain in the face of the government's attempt to "hide for real reasons the death toll."

The initiative comes after the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha raised the alarm about a mismatch of 800 people between the death toll and burial licenses. For this reason, the Vox Parliamentary Group in Congress has now sent a letter to the General Council of the Judiciary requesting their participation and coordination to prepare a report investigating the "real" figures.

In parallel, the Santiago Abascal party has announced that its parliamentary groups in the different autonomous communities will also send this Monday a letter to the Superior Courts of Justice of each region so that they can proceed to rule on the number of deaths in their respective territories .

Vox wants to pull the thread of the numbers through the judges because it considers that the Government is providing "unreal data" to minimize the scope of the tragedy. "The suspicious official death toll threatens to be the biggest hoax of this tragedy," Abascal reproached last Thursday in a harsh tone to Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias during the plenary session of Congress.

In its claim to the Judiciary, Vox urges the need for transparency in these data not only for "a duty of justice with the Spanish people," he says, "but a necessary tool to combat the pandemic." Vox invokes article 58 of the decree of November 14, 1958 by which the Superior Courts of Justice may request the data from the Civil Registry.

In a statement, Vox considers that it is a "right" of all citizens "to know the extent of the virus" and expresses its "concern" about a "concealment" strategy. "As part of the Legislative Power and in the face of the silence of the Executive Power, by virtue of the separation of powers, we are forced to resort to the Judicial Power to know these essential data for the Spanish at this time," say party sources.

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