He plebiscite for social security reform promoted by the PIT-CNT The political and economic mood has been heating up for months, but that tension has now entered a new level of uncertainty as the Electoral Court It is rejecting the signatures presented for its implementation in the October general elections.
The organization reported that of the 430,023 signatures presented by the PIT-CNT At the end of April, some 231,452 had already entered the system, of which some 223,664 were processed and some 7,778 remain in process.
Of the total signatures processed, 55,610 signatures (25%) were challenged, most of them (about 29,803) because the signature line does not match their identity documents. Another of the main causes was the presentation of incomplete data, although minors and even a person who does not appear on the electoral roll were also registered.
“Either they are trout, fake, or there were multiple ones, people who signed several times, and that is done voluntarily, no one signs distractedly several times. Or there are minors. It is striking, 100,000 signatures is not a coincidence,” the senator from the National Party and former Minister of Defense, Javier Garciaof great prominence in the campaign of the presidential candidate Alvaro Delgado.
“It is very worrying. It ends up being for that percentage a fraudulent action“, he pointed out and highlighted that together with the PIT-CNT “important sectors of the Wide Front” gathering signatures for the plebiscite for social security reform.
The PIT-CNT is already preparing an offensive in the face of the high and unusual rejection of signatures and asked the Electoral Court to access the list of rejected signatures.
“It is not because there are 28,000 adulterations, no one can believe that 28,000 signatures were forged, it is all a 28,000 scaffolding,” he said. Luis Vegadelegate of the union center, who assured that the institution understands that it is evident that “the line changed for those people.”
So far, the Electoral Court has validated 168,054 of the 223,664 signatures analyzed, that is, more than 60% of the 276,151 necessary to approve the plebiscite by social security reform and 6.0856% of the total number of those registered on the electoral roll (2,761,513 people).
Source: Ambito
