The president of the Government of the autonomous city of Melilla, Eduardo de Castro, has dismissed his councilor for Districts, Youth and Citizen Participation, Mohamed Ahmed Al-lal, number three on the lists of the Coalition for Melilla (CpM) party, after being arrested yesterday along with nine other people in the framework of the judicial investigation for the alleged purchase of votes by mail for the 28-M in Melilla.
In an extraordinary official bulletin, the Government of Melilla has communicated the dismissal of Allal, number three of Mustafá Aberchan’s party, which governs the autonomous city with the PSOE.
The president of Melilla, who achieved his record in 2019 as head of the Ciudadanos list, although he was expelled from the party for a case of prevarication and is in the mixed group, already warned yesterday that he would dismiss members of his Executive “if his legal situation so requires.
After this cessation, the Government of Melilla is left with 11 members, specifically the president, four councilors and three deputy councilors of the Coalition for Melilla and three councilors of the PSOE.
The National Police arrested ten people between Monday and Tuesday for their alleged involvement in buying votes by mail, an electoral fraud that could have been carried out for the May 28 elections in the autonomous city. All of them are accused of an alleged electoral crime and belonging to a criminal group.
After giving a statement at police stations, those arrested were released and will be summoned by the judge who is conducting the investigation into this alleged plot.
