The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has partially assessed some of Junts per Catalunya’s complaints about the electoral use that the Government of the Generalitat is making of the institution during the electoral campaign for the municipal elections on May 28, and points out that the president Pere Aragonès and the Minister of Education, Josep González-Cambray, have violated what is stipulated in the electoral law.
Specifically, the administrative body points out that article 50.2 of the Loreg has been violated by the monocolor Executive of Esquerra Republicana, on the prohibition, during the electoral period, of alluding from public administrations “to the achievements or achievements obtained” .
These are complaints by Junts for statements by the head of the Catalan Executive when presenting the campaign against fires on May 5, and an act by the head of Education when he presented the campaign against bullying on May 2.
In any case, the JEC does not see a “systemic” violation of the precepts on the neutrality of institutions, as denounced by JxCat, so it will not adopt measures beyond declaring that the aforementioned article has been violated. There will be no disciplinary file.
The article referred to by the electoral referee provides that “from the time the elections are called and until they are held, any act organized or financed, directly or indirectly, by the public authorities that contains allusions to the achievements or achievements obtained, or that uses images or expressions that coincide or are similar to those used in their own campaigns by any of the political entities participating in the elections”.
