The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, confirmed on Tuesday that complaints about alleged fraud in postal voting in the elections on May 28 in Melilla are being investigated.
"They are very serious facts, in the case of being proven to be true, and in that sense our maximum dedication to clarify these facts under the direction of the judicial authority," Marlaska told the media in the halls of the Senate.
In recent days, there have been allegations that hooded people in unregistered vehicles were stealing postal ballots from postmen before they could deliver them. After dozens of robberies of this type, the deliveries of Correos are taking place with police escort for five days.
The robberies are rarefied the campaign in the autonomous city. Coalition for Melilla, the main party of the Muslim community in the city, led by Mustafa Aberchan, has called for the suspension of the 28-M elections in the face of an alleged "massive fraud" of "vote buying", before the wave of robberies and after having doubled for these elections this modality of vote.
Vox, for its part, has claimed before the Provincial Electoral Board the suspension of the postal vote denouncing the alleged "irregularities" that could alter the result of 28-M.
Marlaska, in statements in the Senate, has assured that the decision to suspend or not the vote by mail corresponds ultimately to the Electoral Board of Zone.
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- Fernando Grande-Marlaska
- Municipal Elections
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