The PSOE will appeal to the Supreme Court the decision of the Central Electoral Board (JEC) not to review the 30,302 invalid votes registered in Madrid, as confirmed this morning by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, at a press conference in Congress after collecting the act that accredits him as a deputy. "The most guaranteed thing is that those votes are verified and that the citizens who went to vote see their rights guaranteed," Bolaños stated.
In this way, the PSOE resorts to the last instance to review the invalid votes after the JEC rejected the recount of the 30,000 votes last week, considering that the request of the Socialists lacked "constitutional and legal anchoring" and that a argument of that nature "cannot be accepted".
In the first instance, the PSOE filed an appeal before the Madrid Electoral Board, but the provincial entity rejected the petition, alleging that it was "unfeasible." After learning of this decision, the Socialists appealed to the JEC and accused the Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid of having infringed the electoral regulations and of violating the Constitution by denying their request.
The socialist party calculated that, validating 4.43% of those votes, it would once again win the seat that it lost to the PP in the foreign vote and that now forces it to depend on the affirmative vote of Junts to reach a sufficient majority to obtain the investiduation of Pedro Sánchez.
The PSOE request had come after the CERA vote snatched a seat from them and gave the PP its 16th deputy for the Community of Madrid, 137 of the popular ones in Spain. After this last count, however, the difference in favor of the popular was minimal: the PSOE was 1,323 votes away from obtaining its 11th deputy.
