The Central Electoral Board dismisses the appeal of the PSOE for the seat 16 of Madrid: "It would be contrary to the Law and would make it unfeasible to meet the legal deadlines"

• 23-J The Central Electoral Board does not see feasible to review the 30,000 null votes that the PSOE contests
• Null votes The PSOE does not give up in the fight for seat 16: raises its complaint to the JEC after the door of the Provincial Board

The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has decided not to review the nearly 30,000 null votes requested by the PSOE. In this way, the PP officially gets its seat 137, while the socialist force drops to 121. In addition, the highest body of the electoral administration has ruled by 10 votes in favor and 3 against this decision.

In the legal text, the JEC has argued that "an argument of this nature cannot be accepted, since it is contrary to the procedure established in the LOREG (Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime) and would make it unfeasible to meet the legally established deadlines".

Of special relevance is the argument it makes in the justification of its decision: "The appellant does not allege any irregularity in the general scrutiny as to justify the repetition requested, but merely invokes its right to review the null vote indicating the proximity in the number of votes necessary to modify the distribution of seats in the Madrid constituency." To which he adds that "this Board considers that an argument of this nature cannot be accepted, since it is contrary to the procedure established in the LOREG and would make it unfeasible to comply with the legally established deadlines.

And it is that as this newspaper anticipated exclusively last Tuesday: there would be no changes. The JEC did not see it feasible to review those thousands of null votes that the party led by Pedro Sánchez claimed so as not to definitively lose its twelfth seat in Madrid. A key armchair.

After the Provincial Board of Madrid did not agree to carry out the review of these thousands of invalidated Madrid ballots, the PSOE raised its demand to the JEC. At first, the highest instance of the electoral administration argued that to make such a request, it argued, some evidence of concrete failures must be presented.

In addition, he stressed that in many agreements where a general challenge is seen as the one intended by the PSOE do not have much travel. In this line, they also explained that null votes that have been protested at the polling stations would normally be reviewed. If not, it's difficult.

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