I orderEnric Dolsa and Jordina Bringué, leaders of the losing candidacy in the 2023 municipal elections, contested the result in all judicial instances. Finally, after losing all legal actions, they appealed to the Constitutional Court. It was already the second time that Dolsa took his defeat to the Court in accordance with conspiracy theories about a change in judicial votes.
According to Dolsa, “just as it happened in the general elections, in the last municipal elections of December 17, 2023, the inviolability of each and every judicial vote and vote by mail was also not guaranteed. He points out that at the time of the deposit of the votes, the presence of no batlle was verified, nor were the votes deposited in a special urn until the day of the election day”. He believes that there is a political conspiracy where everything is arranged for him to lose the elections.
A cheating resource
The courts are very hard on Dolsa. He criticizes him for confusing the terms responsibility and competence with respect to the task of the battles in the elections. It states that “there has been no violation of the right to vote, because if the appellants had suspicions that the electoral process was being carried out illegally or was violating their rights, they should have challenged it as sooner rather than later and not after the announcement of the results when they learned that they were unfavorable for their candidacy.” So it’s a cheater appeal contesting once he knows he’s lost.
Dolsa based his claim on the people who had told him they had voted for him. This argument has not had much traction. The TC reminds Dolsa that asking for the recordings of all those who voted in the Batllia would be an attempt against their rights. Or the idea of checking the ballots of the judicial vote with the envelopes that contained them does not make any sense. First, because the ballots are destroyed. Second, and more importantly, because all ballots are equal. If a ballot could be linked to an envelope, it would be possible to know what each person voted for.