Friday, March 29

The Central Electoral Board rejects Vox’s request to attend debates in the Castilla y León campaign


The Central Electoral Board has dismissed this Friday the appeals filed by Vox against the Agreements of the Electoral Board of Castilla y León of January 10 and 14, 2022, which rejected the inclusion of said political formation in the electoral debates held on the occasion of the elections to the Cortes of Castilla y León on February 13, 2022.

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In its agreement, the JEC recalls that Law 3/1987, of January 3, Electoral of Castilla y León “provides for the holding of public debates during the campaign between candidates for the presidency of the Junta de Castilla y León of the political formations that they have their own parliamentary group”. And he recalls that “the recurrent formation”, that of the extreme right, “lacks a parliamentary group in the Cortes of Castilla y León”.

Likewise, the text indicates that the Electoral Board itself already indicated in a previous agreement that “the political pluralism established in article 66 LOREG is not violated by the absence in the debate of a formation that does not have a parliamentary group, to the extent that that the possibility of having been able to form a parliamentary group in the Cortes is an objective and impartial criterion for including a certain political formation in a debate at the regional level”.

“Proportionality is, on the other hand, sufficiently guaranteed through the provision contained in the third point of the Instruction of the Electoral Board of Castilla y León, which provides that candidates from formations without their own parliamentary group may be subject to ‘sufficient compensatory information’ “, Add.

In this sense, the JEC emphasizes that “it is not up to the electoral boards to define in advance what these compensatory measures must consist of, which, if applicable, will be adopted by the media concerned, in the terms established in Instruction 4/ 2011 of the Central Electoral Board that also contemplates the possibility of challenging the specific measures adopted by each communication medium, depending on whether it is a publicly owned or privately owned medium.

The agreement adopted is firm in the administrative process and has had the particular vote of the member José Miguel Serrano Ruiz-Calderón, who has considered it pertinent that Vox be in the electoral debates. A contentious-administrative appeal may be lodged against the decision of the JEC before the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court within two months of its notification.



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