The Provincial Electoral Board has opened a disciplinary file against the socialist candidate for Valencia City Council, Sandra Gómez, for sending letters in which her management was valued. As denounced by the PP in a statement, the Provincial Electoral Board affirms that “the remittance days before the start of the [electoral] period of the letters so that they reach the citizens within the electoral period, supposes an evident violation of the content of article 50.2 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime, and there is no doubt that such behavior infringes the principle of neutrality with which the Administration must act”.
For all these reasons, the Board has agreed to “initiate disciplinary proceedings against the possibility of committing an electoral infraction sanctioned in art. 153 LOREGâ€.
The spokesman for the PP campaign Juan Carlos Caballero has stated that “the Electoral Board has agreed with the PP and has confirmed that Pedro Sánchez’s candidate in Valencia committed an illegality”, by spending “more than 20,000 euros of all Valencians in the massive sending of self-promoting electoral letters, breaking the law and making a more than evident illegal use of public funds for partisan and electoral purposes.â€
The Board confirms in its resolution that the “postal shipments have been made in a quantity of 74,624 letters and whose date of receipt by the neighbors was foreseeable to arrive during the electoral period and this has indeed occurred as stated in the complaint.”
The body also resolves that “the institutional campaign must end with the immediate withdrawal of the possibility of access from the QR code incorporated in the letters to the projects that appear on the website of the Valencia City Council.”
After learning about the file, the socialist candidacy explained that “there is no electoral crime” and that the sanction proposal is due to sending it out of time that, they have pointed out, does not depend on them but on a CompromÃs department. However, the Socialists have informed this newspaper of their intention to appeal the possible fine.
