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The primaries to elect regional leaders in Podemos ended with a victory for the candidates sponsored by Pablo Iglesias. In most cases clearly, but in two territories, Valencia and La Rioja, very tightly. In La Rioja, Arantxa Carrero, an official candidate, defeated Sara Carreño by 17 votes. The latter demanded a review, after it was established that 13 votes came from the same IP, from the same computer.

The controversy arose 24 hours before Podemos made the results official. Members of the four candidacies that were presented met, together with the technical manager and the legal manager, to discuss "13 votes cast from the same IP, including the name of Amaia Castro", councilor residing in the Logroño City Council and belonging to the candidacy of Arantxa Carrero.

Primary results in La Rioja

Aránzazu Carrero - 205 votes (39.4%)
Sara Carreño - 188 votes (36.1%)

Germán Cantabrana - 82 votes (15.8%).

Members of the three losing candidates requested that these 13 votes be verified, as recorded in the minutes of the anti-fraud session, to which this newspaper has had access. "Since there was no family relationship between the names and addresses on those vows and there was no

No voting point enabled, I have expressed my doubts about the 13 votes cast from the same IP that Amaia Castro's vote repeatedly, requesting Javier Pérez to verify that said votes had been made in a personal and voluntary manner by said people , since I think there are indications of fraud, "requested the representative of the candidacy of Sara Carreño, who lost by 18 votes.

"I support the requests for verification of the 13 votes requested by my colleagues from other candidates"; "I have stated that if there are more votes cast or corrected from that same IP, they should also be checked," said the other two candidates in the running. There is no statement in the minutes from the candidate that won the vote.

Faced with these requests, the party agreed and proceeded to study and examine the 13 votes that came out of the same ordinate. "After the request of at least two auditors of lists to study more in depth the votes cast from the IP from which 13 votes were cast, it has been considered from the Coordination of the Organization Secretariat to estimate the request and carry out said study. It has followed the common protocol of calling all the people who voted from that IP ", contains the anti-fraud act held by this newspaper.

The detail of the call checkup, carried out by the technical manager and the legal manager, has fueled the suspicions of the participants in the primaries. The first person to appear in the checked report is Óscar Castro Sánchez , brother of Amaia Castro, and that according to sources of the candidacies consulted by this newspaper, he would not have been able to vote in the primary process since he was not in La Rioja.

Of the 13 people contacted, as reflected in the minutes, five were not directly located. "She does not pick up the phone", is the note contained in the minutes. One answered the call, but was unable to answer. In a second attempt, "she is called again and does not pick it up". One of them directly confirms that she did not know that there was a vote in Podemos to elect a regional leader or that she has voted. "It responds to our call, it does not confirm that it knew that this week there was a vote, it does not confirm that it has voted in it, it tells us that it did vote for the last time in the Third State Citizen Assembly." Faced with this confession, which raises doubts about "fraud" of the candidacy that came in second place, the party decides to eliminate its vote from the count.

But it is the only one that is removed. In the other cases, despite the fact that the person was not contacted in half, the vote was not included in the anti-fraud act. Something that has caused discomfort in the other candidates.

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