The unusual decision of the Central Electoral Board to order that Podemos-IU-V-Alianza Verde had to share its speaking time in the electoral debate with Más Región-Equo led to its final cancellation after the purple candidate, María Marín, left refused to leave the set and, therefore, to give up his lectern.
Yesterday, Friday, was the only electoral debate in which the candidates for the Presidency of the Region of Murcia were going to participate, although "the impossibility of complying with the mandate of the Central Electoral Board" motivated, according to the statement issued by the channel La7, its cancellation.
In a resolution, which was appealed by the purple party before the Central Electoral Board, and which has not yet been resolved, the aforementioned body ruled that a representative of Podemos-IU-V-Alianza Verde and another of More Region-Equo, since this would mean that "the coalition with the least votes in 2019 would have two representatives in the debate, while the parties with the most votes would have only one representative."
Thus, he ordered that in the first part of the contest a single representative of Podemos-IU-V-Alianza Verde would appear and in the second part one of Más Región-Equo".
But at the end of the first part of the debate -in which Fernando López Miras (Popular Party), José Vélez (PSOE), María José Ros (Ciudadanos), José Ángel Antelo (Vox) and María Marín (Podemos in coalition with Izquierda) participated Unida-Verdes and Alianza Verde), the latter refused to comply with "a resolution that has no precedent and that, for the first time, takes half the time of a debate from a political force with parliamentary representation.
"For us, the fairest solution would have been to have another lectern so that the representative of Equo could debate with the other candidates," justified the purple candidate.
