The Popular Party has presented this Monday the appeal for protection in which it asks the Constitutional Court to allow the incorporation of

Toni Cantó

and

Agustín Conde

to the

popular

list

for the 4-M elections.

The letter affirms that the Madrid court that on Sunday rejected the candidacies of numbers 5 and 23 on the list headed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso "introduces without any foundation in the wording of the law a non-existent restrictive and unfounded requirement" of the requirements for be candidates.

The contentious-administrative judge revoked the initial approval given to both by the

Provincial Electoral Board,

considering that only those who are included "in the current electoral roll" can be a candidate.

In this case, the one corresponding to January 1, 2021, a date on which neither Cantó nor Conde were registered in Madrid nor did they meet the requirements to be registered.

The PP regrets that the judge chose this interpretation, "when it has been peacefully interpreted that the requirements must be met at the time of submitting the candidacy."

A few days before presenting their lists, the former spokesman for Ciudadanos in the Valencian Courts and the former popular mayor of Toledo had changed their DNI and were already listed as residents in the Community, so according to the party they did meet the legal requirement.

Different moments

"It is more than evident that the current legislation in no way configures the requirement preached by the sentence to exclude the candidates, but rather, rather, it requires that the requirements for this be met at the time of presentation of the candidacy and not, in no way, at the time of registration in the electoral roll, "affirms the PP in an appeal that according to the law the TC should resolve within three days.

In other words, the moment of meeting the requirements to be a voter and a candidate is the one that marks the decision.

According to the judge, you must be on the current electoral roll, which leads to the month of January;

according to the PP, at the time of presenting the electoral list.

In any case, the document emphasizes that in the event of possible disparate interpretations of the regulations, the one most favorable to the fundamental exercises must always be chosen, in this case the authorization to stand for elections.

"Restrictive" interpretation

"The sentence makes a restrictive interpretation of the fundamental right to political participation contained in article 23 of the Magna Carta, understanding that the mention of the current electoral census does not depend on the moment in which it must be verified, but refers exclusively to the closed The first day of the second month prior to the electoral call, exegesis, however, contrary to the literal wording and the interpretation [...] of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime ".

The appeal for electoral protection also affirms that the judge's decision to uphold the claim of the PSOE of Madrid "violates the right to access under conditions of equality of all public offices."

The reason is that Cantó and Conde have been demanded some requirements that "have never been required for any proposed candidate."

Proof of this, he adds, is that this question "has never been raised" before the TC "in more than 40 years of democracy and 169 electoral processes."

Finally, he reproaches the judge for not giving Cantó and Conde the opportunity to respond to the appeal of the PSOE, which in his opinion is a clear case of defenselessness.

For all this, he asks the Constitutional Court to return things to how the Electoral Board had resolved them and allow Cantó and Conde to return to their positions on Ayuso's list.

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