The Popular Party has requested to remove the two banners hung by Más Madrid, in which the 7,291 deaths in the residences in the first wave of covid were remembered, for violating "the prohibition of advertising or electoral propaganda since the elections were called." European Championships”, which will be held on June 9.
Más Madrid hung two banners last week - in Puente de Vallecas and Moratalaz - remembering the 7,291 deaths in the residences, on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1,500 days of the so-called protocols of shame, which began on April 26.
“7,291. They weren't going to die the same way. 1,500 days since the protocols of shame. 7,921 people died in residences. 0 explanations”, is the message that reads on the two canvases.
According to the documentation to which Efe has had access, the PP has presented a written electoral claim to the Madrid Zone Electoral Board on April 30 against Más Madrid, a group belonging to the Sumar coalition.
According to the Popular Party, these banners have been installed “during the pre-campaign period” of the European elections and, therefore, the carrying out of advertising or electoral propaganda is “prohibited”, to which they add that it is “contrary to the principle of transparency that “must govern” in an electoral campaign.
In response to this request, the Electoral Board has asked Más Madrid to “immediately” remove said banners, as well as “any tweet or reference to the image, whether in paper format, in publications, brochures or any controlled social network.” for the party.
In response to this resolution of the electoral body, the leading party of the opposition to President Isabel Díaz Ayuso in Madrid has presented allegations justifying that the content of the banners “is, simply, the exercise of the functions constitutionally recognized by political parties in the expression free of political opinions and, in no case does it imply electoral propaganda referring to the European elections,” they emphasize.
Más Madrid has also asked the Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid to reject the order of the Electoral Board of the Madrid area.
Sources from Más Madrid emphasize that these allegations are based on the fact that the aforementioned canvases do not contain any message referring to or inciting voting in the elections to the European Parliament, nor are they signed by Más Madrid, nor do they refer to any party or candidate who is going to compete. to said electoral contest, so “in coherence with the interpretation of the Constitutional Court of the applicable restrictions based on the electoral law, we are not violating anything.”
In addition to the PP's complaint to the Electoral Board, Más Madrid explains that the Municipal Police has also reported one of the tarps deployed by the formation, alleging a "false" non-compliance with municipal regulations.
As explained after an event by the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility of the municipal government, Borja Carabante, the complaint was filed by a municipal police officer "ex officio", without receiving "any instructions from this City Council."
“I know that to a left-wing person this may seem like science fiction that the administration or politicians do not give instructions to the Police or any institution. We do not give them and, therefore, that complaint was made ex officio by a municipal police officer who came across that tarp and, as I say, carried out that complaint," Carabante highlighted, adding that "we will see what that complaint turns out to be." .
And he added: “What has become clear is that, as a consequence of the appeal that the Popular Party has presented for the political use of that banner, the Electoral Board has agreed with the Popular Party and has requested Más Madrid to withdraw that banner. canvas as a consequence of the fact that he is violating the electoral law.”
