The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has sent to the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office (TS) the complaint filed by Fernando Barredo, the rival of the leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, in the Third State Citizen Assembly of the 'purple' formation, for the alleged irregularities in said primary, as both the second vice president of the Government and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, two of the people against whom the complaint is directed, were measured.

In a decree, to which Europa Press has had access, the Anticorruption Deputy Prosecutor, María Belén Suárez, has indicated that "the facts presented are not the responsibility of this Special Prosecutor's Office," for which reason it has agreed "to refer them to the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court as two of the denounced persons have status as graduates. "

Barredo filed a complaint last July against the Podemos Coordination Council -the party's executive-, of which Iglesias and Montero are part, for alleged crimes of falsity, identity theft and disclosure of secrets for, he claims, having Violation of the statutes and the Code of Ethics of the political organization, among other internal documents, in Vistalegre III.

The complaint, partially reproduced by Anticorrupción, indicates that "both Mr. Iglesias and Mrs. Montero, with contempt for the internal norms of the party, present themselves for that second candidacy, despite the limitations established in the Code of Ethics for the exercise of more than one public function or more than one internal position ".

Barredo defends that neither Iglesias nor Montero nor other members of his team could be candidates, because they already held two institutional positions and one internal.

Thus, it states that Iglesias was and is second vice president of the Government, deputy and secretary general of Podemos, while Montero, Ione Belarra and Noelia Vera were and are deputies and Minister of Equality, Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda and Secretary of State for Equality, respectively, as well as members of the Citizen Council of the party.

In addition, it denounces that "the electoral process, which begins with some rules", after the suspension due to the state of alarm "is restarted without prior notice with new rules, dictated by the highest organs of the party, having formed the Technical Team, responsible for the primary process, candidates from the list presented by Iglesias ".

Specifically, it claims that documents were altered to introduce new candidates, the voter registry was also altered and the vote count was manipulated.

"From that moment, news of suspicions of fraud in the electoral process began to spread, even in consultations in previous years," reads the extract of the complaint reproduced by Anticorrupción.

Barredo has also filed a lawsuit before the courts of Madrid for the same reasons in which he asks to annul those primary elections for failing to comply with internal regulations and hold new ones "with guarantee of the rights of equality between the candidates", for which he raises a "External and independent professional scrutiny and public verification and scrutiny of the results."

In the lawsuit, it also accuses Iglesias and his team of "altering an electoral process by playing with an advantage, making the competition invisible, conditioning the times and requirements, changing the Regulations on the fly, modifying documents, and whatever is necessary, to alter the electoral result from their dominant position, in which they acted as judges and as a party ".

Barredo relies on the precedent set by the sentence handed down on December 28 by the Court of First Instance Number 89 of Madrid, which declared the nullity of the primaries process in Podemos for the municipal elections in Collado Villalba for manipulating the results.

The plaintiff maintains that the party's way of proceeding has been the same in both primaries.

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