Podemos Canarias has denied that the candidates who follow Alberto Rodríguez on the list have resigned to replace the former deputy, who the president of the Congress Meritxel Batet withdrew his seat after being convicted of assaulting a policeman in 2014. A sentence that will be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.
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The number two on the list, Fatima Gonzalez Bello, of Izquierda Unida, did communicate through her social networks her intention not to replace Alberto Rodriguez. However, according to Podemos Canarias, this communication has not yet been made official. For it to be made official, it would have to be done before a public secretary.
The formation in the Canary Islands ensures that it is still unknown if the number three, Patricia Mesa Mederos, will take the decision to replace Rodriguez or decline the same; a question that will be addressed on Tuesday afternoon in the Coordinating Council of Podemos Canarias.
The Efe agency had assured this Tuesday that the Central Electoral Board (JEC) will communicate in the next few hours to María del Cristo González del Castillo the accreditation as deputy of United We can replace Alberto Rodríguez, since the next two people on the list for the constituency of Santa Cruz de Tenerife have resigned to take the seat. An information now denied by the formation.
According to Efe, the JEC has communicated this Tuesday the agreements that they carried out last week in which noted the sentence of the Supreme that points out that the measure in which the article 44 of the Penal Code establishes that the special disqualification for the right of passive suffrage deprives the convicted, during the time of the sentence, of the right to be elected for public office, the Central Electoral Board takes knowledge. of the same. However, it does not disqualify him from holding a previously acquired public office, so the interpretation of the sentence and the loss of the seat has provoked an intense legal debate.
“Mr. Rodriguez Rodriguez may not run as a candidate in electoral processes during the duration of the sentence imposed in the sentence,” the JEC states in its statement, which does not mean that he cannot hold public office. Rodriguez has already announced that he will appeal the sentence to the European Court of Human Rights, since he was convicted without more evidence than the testimony of a single witness, who was also the victim, and with the vote against the conviction of two of the judges, who stressed in their briefs that there was insufficient evidence to withdraw the presumption of innocence.
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