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The Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid will study a sanctioning file against Pablo Iglesias for his latest video in the ministerial office, in which he said goodbye to his position as second vice-president of the Government to be a candidate for the presidency of the Community of Madrid, alluding to the achievements achieved in the last year, something that the Electoral Law expressly prohibits during the electoral period. Iglesias announced with "pride" a new success: the distribution of 238 million

euros as part of the crash plan for aid to dependency in the autonomous regions.

PP

de Madrid has submitted a letter to the Board in which he asks that "a sanctioning file be opened".

The fines range from 300 to 3,000 euros The complaint claims that the leader of

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"clearly violates electoral regulations" by making use of public resources to campaign, such as "the office of the vice president, which is absolutely identifiable and which he systematically uses to launch his institutional messages, aggravated by the use of the ministerial portfolio", which Iglesias had strategically placed behind himself.

"Electoral video"

"This video has a single electoralist purpose, which can be demonstrated", according to the PP, with some of its statements, such as: "Fulfilling the commitment to rebuild the dependency care system by reversing the PP cuts." "We have demonstrated that we are not bought ", also said the secretary general of Podemos about his formation, whose ballot he leads for the Madrid elections of May 4. The Electoral Law establishes, in its article 50.2, that" from the call of the elections and until the celebration of the same, any act organized or financed, directly or indirectly, by the public powers that contains allusions to the achievements or achievements obtained is prohibited. "And that is just what the former vice president of the Government did in the first part of your video.

"During this hard and complicated year, we have worked hard to lay the foundations for the reconstruction of the dependency system," said Iglesias. "It is a pride to be able to tell you that I have finished my stage in the coalition government" fulfilling "the objective to rebuild the dependency care system in Spain, "he added.

Iglesias, repeat offender

It is the second time that Iglesias has challenged the Electoral Law since

Isabel Diaz Ayuso

summon the autonomic elections in the Community of Madrid.

The first, when

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His candidacy, also from the Ministry's office, the provincial Electoral Board concluded that he had broken the law, but given the reiteration in which he incurred this Tuesday, Iglesias would now face the

opening

of a sanctioning file.

The doctrine of the body that arbitrates electoral periods is clear in this regard. The PP argues this way: "The video that accompanies the tweet is recorded from the same approach in which it was condemned by the Provincial Electoral Board recently when using the public media of its ministerial office for partisan benefit, showing total contempt for the decisions of that Electoral Board, even in this case to make a greater emphasis by placing the vice president and minister's briefcase so that it reinforces the institutional image that it presents to the electorate. "" This act It involves the use of a position, an institutional office and the ministerial portfolio to carry out a covert campaign act ", underline the

popular

. "In keeping with the above, it turns out that the second vice president is using his capacity as such to carry out a partisan act, in which he values ​​aspects of his electoral program with public resources", which violates, in the eyes of the PP, the principles of neutrality, impartiality and equality of the public powers.

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