The party He arrives in Lisbon presented this Monday a resort to Constitutional Court for not agreeing with “several of the decisions” of the ruling that determines the recount of votes in local elections in a section of the parish of São Domingos de Benfica.
“The Chega party came to appeal the decision, with the process being concluded with the reporting advisor”, informed the Constitutional Court (TC), after being asked when it would begin the process of vote recount of the October 12th local electionswhich will be carried out by the general tabulation assembly of the municipality of Lisbon.
Chega’s first elected councilor for Lisbon ChamberBruno Mascarenhas, said that appealed to the TC for not agreeing with the ruling published on Friday on the appeal filed by the CDU (PCP/PEV coalition), including for validating a null vote from the parish of Santa Maria Maior in favor of the CDU.
“There are six previous TC rulings that contradict the decision regarding the vote that authorized the CDU”, stated Bruno Mascarenhas, considering that the act of validating a vote that had been declared null “is complementary wrong and reveals a certain partiality”.
In this ruling, the judges at Ratton Palace They also decided to declare another vote that had been attributed to Chega in the Lisbon City Council election null and void. Chega was ahead of the CDU by three votes, after seeing the difference of 11 votes reduced, advantage that has now been reduced to just one voteaccording to the TC.
The difference in votes between Chega and CDU is relevant regarding the election of councilors in the Lisbon City Council, with whoever is ahead winning two mandates, while the other only gets one. If it is confirmed that Chega was the third most voted candidate, after PSD/CDS-PP/IL and PS/Livre/BE/PAN, the CDU loses a communist councilor in the capital, compared to the two elected in 2021.
Yet the process was not scheduled of “recount of votes from polling station no. 28 of the polling station in the parish of São Domingos de Benficain the municipality of Lisbon, regarding the election for the Lisbon City Council”.
Waiting for the recount of votes, Chega’s elected reinforced that this act “will reopen, once again, the electoral counting process“.
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