A total of seven people have been arrested this Wednesday in Mojácar (Almería) for their alleged involvement in an alleged vote-buying scheme for the municipal elections on May 28, including two candidates from the list of the PSOE to the elections, specifically, the ‘number 2’ and ‘number 5’.
This has been confirmed to Europa Press by political and investigative sources, who have specified that agents of the Civil Guard and the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard have been deployed since early in the morning in the municipality, where there are also three investigated and where “dozens of searches” have been carried out.
The open operation is based on a complaint against an alleged electoral fraud carried out by an individual who would have been affected by the alleged plot that, according to the first indications, would have affected an “undetermined number of votes.”
The investigation, which began “a long time ago” and in which it is ruled out that the anonymous origin of the complaint, is coordinated by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 4 of Vera (Almería), which has agreed to decree the secrecy of the proceedings , as reported by sources in the case.
The Civil Guard maintains an operation against electoral fraud that is in full operation, so it is not ruled out that there may be more detainees throughout the day.
In Mojácar, the PP governs with an absolute majority after the last municipal elections of 2019, when it obtained eight of the 13 councilors that make up the Plenary with 1,692 votes, while the PSOE obtained five of them, with 1,145 ballots. In total, 2,990 votes were cast, 71.26 percent of the census.
