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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 (EUROPA PRESS)
The judicial authority in charge of the Guard Court in Arona (number 2) has taken a statement this Saturday morning from the three representatives of the political parties (Canary Islands Coalition, Popular Party and More for Arona) who had denounced an alleged case purchase of PSOE votes.
After hearing their testimonies and consensus with the representation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the judicial authority has decided that for now it is not going to take any precautionary measure and does not consider that it is necessary for the moment to receive a statement from anyone under investigation.
Yesterday, Friday, the Court on duty in Arona initiated preliminary proceedings to clarify the alleged case of electoral crime denounced last Thursday before the National Police by representatives of the Canary Islands Coalition, Popular Party and More for Arona and today Saturday summoned the complainants to provide statement.
CC, PP and Más por Arona filed a complaint for an alleged purchase of votes in the municipality of Tenerife. As reported in a note, the denounced events stem from a conversation in a private WhatsApp group for sports activities in which one of the participants is currently a trusted position of the PSOE mayor, José Julián Mena.
As stated in the complaint -supported by a screenshot-, an interlocutor sends a photograph with an electoral envelope where the candidate is seen and the words José Julián Mena Alcalde accompanied by the following words: “Manuel, the horse and I we are with you”. After this publication, the current adviser to the mayor responds verbatim: “I did not expect less. The 50 euros cusnfo votes.”
Once the candidates of the three political formations -Clara María Pérez (CC), Fátima Lemes (PP) and Dácil León (Más por Arona)- learned of this information, “which violates the main democratic rules”, they decided to make it known. of the pertinent authorities, who will be in charge of clarifying whether a possible crime could have been committed in this way of proceeding.
The courts this morning shelved the last attempt by the Arona opposition to influence the electoral campaign on the day of reflection. Three parties in the municipality: Coalición Canaria, Partido Popular and Más por Arona, the two previous ones instigated by the latter, made up of defectors from the PSOE, instigated a complaint for the alleged purchase of votes in the municipality.
To do this, they relied on a screenshot of a friends’ chat room, which has been the alleged evidence presented in court. All this despite the fact that the protagonist of the comments has already denied the facts on his social networks.
Faced with this situation, the courts had summoned the three parties to take their statements and analyze the alleged evidence. After doing so, and in consensus with the Prosecutor’s Office, court number 2 of Arona has decided that “it is not going to take any precautionary measure and does not consider it necessary to receive a statement from anyone as an investigated person”, which means that the complaint does not has no support.
Faced with this situation, the Socialist Party of Arona has sent a new statement in which it has once again demanded that the three opposition parties, which have acted jointly in their electoral campaign, ask for a public apology “for what has resulted simply be a last attempt to harm the PSOE”.
