The Constitutional Court unanimously rejects the PSOE’s request to review the zero votes in Madrid

The Constitutional Court (TC) has unanimously rejected the request for protection formulated by the PSOE to carry out a recount of the zero votes in the province of Madrid during the July 23 general elections. approximately 30,000 ballots keys to facilitating Pedro Sánchez’s investiture, according to legal sources.

The House of Representatives, which will meet urgently from 9 a.m., has thus supported the progressive magistrate’s presentation Laura Diezwhich proposed rejecting the socialist challenge.

The magistrates also followed the measure criteria of the TC’s Chief Prosecutor, Pedro Crespowho asked to dismiss the PSOE’s appeal, saying there is no right to request the recount of zero votes “on the basis of mere will”.

In the same vein, the conservative magistrate Enrique Arnaldo in a dissentas well as other voices from the Court of Guarantees, who warned of the dangerous precedent of allowing election recounts at the whim of the parties without evidence of irregularities.

The decision adopted today is in stark contrast to that of last September 5, when the progressive majority in the same room (four against two) agreed to allow the electoral protection, partly based on a presentation by Díez.

It so happens that the PP challenged the rapporteur magistrate claiming that the fact that she had been in charge of Moncloa prevented her from being impartial in the matter, although the House of Representatives unanimously rejected this.

Thanks to the invalid ballots that the PSOE wanted to review, the PP leader could be declared Carlos Garcia Adanero as an elected deputy, who prevents the socialist Javier Rodriguez Palacios took over the seat.

If this deputy had been added, the PSOE would have had an easier time with a hypothetical investiture of Pedro Sánchez, as the vote in favor of the Junts would no longer have been necessary, but an abstention from Carles Puigdemont’s party would have been sufficient.