The electoral board expels the Saharawi activist Tesh Sidi from the Más Madrid list due to an error in the register

The leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, has announced this Tuesday, Madrid Community Day, that she will appeal the decision of the Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid that has not admitted the registration of her number 11 at Puerta del Sol, Tesh Sidi , Saharawi activist and

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This is how she has transferred it to journalists in statements from Puerta del Sol, where the commemorative acts of the Second of May are being held.

Party sources explain that Sidi has been living in Madrid for years and has a home and a permanent job in the city of Madrid.

“He obtained nationality a year ago and for two years he appeared in the Madrid census.

But a few months ago, her mother, who lived in the Tindouf refugee camps, had an accident when a wall fell, breaking both her legs.

At that time, Tesh began with the long and difficult bureaucratic and administrative procedures to bring her mother to Spain so that she could be cared for in Malaga, where she had other relatives, ”they reported this Thursday.

In December, Sidi acted as guarantor and attached all the documentation to register it in the Malaga register, "but at no time did they issue any certificates," they say from Más Madrid, since they claimed from the Administration that it would not be effective until within 20 days.

"And in Malaga they accidentally processed Tesh's own register," they point out from the group.

Tesh was registered for two months in two different places.

Tesh herself, in a video broadcast on her social networks this Thursday, explained the bureaucratic journey that has left her off the lists to attend the May 28 elections.

“For the last five years I have been a resident of Madrid, I work here, I have never lived outside of Madrid”, Sidi herself pointed out in a video posted on her social networks on Tuesday morning.

"For not appearing for only one month in the electoral roll, the Provincial Board considers that I do not have the right to run in the next elections," she explained.

The activist has also announced: "I trust that the Constitutional Court will make my political rights prevail as a citizen of Madrid."

From Más Madrid they explain that the candidate tried to correct the conflict with the register.

“As soon as she knows that there is a possibility of her wrong registration in Malaga, she goes to the Citizen Services office in Madrid.

In this same office she was told that her registration in Madrid was correct, and that they did not even include a discharge procedure.

They sent her several certificates via email, ”she points out.

But two months later, the INE had updated the data from her register and the discharge was listed in Madrid.

When the data was updated, she was no longer included in the Current Electoral Census, although the group insists that she studied a master's degree and worked in different companies during that period.

“This accidental register could not be identified before, and it could not have been corrected either, since at the time of the closing of the electoral census in force on January 31 (February 1, 2023) she was registered at her usual address, and the Administration in Madrid could not register someone who is registered, even until February 15 ”, they add.

Mónica García has indicated to the press this Thursday that the decision of the Board is an "administrative error" that will be brought before the Contentious-Administrative Courts and, if necessary, in amparo before the Constitutional Court.

The leader of Más Madrid has indicated that the regulatory body for the elections has taken a "timely registration" of the candidate for deputy in the city of Malaga "for medical reasons of her mother."

"The Board has considered that a timely registration is more important than the five years that she has been living in Madrid," she emphasized.

"This is clearly a mismatch between administrations that could not be corrected in a timely manner," Sidi added in her statement.

García has compared the case with that of Toni Cantó, who registered in Madrid after the deadline, and has pointed out that it is "an aberration and the opposite of what happened."

As indicated by the party, Sidi has been living in Madrid for years and has a home and a permanent job in the city of Madrid.

He obtained nationality a year ago and for two years he appeared in the Madrid census.

In the last campaign, the courts annulled the inclusion of the exactor Toni Cantó and the former mayor of Toledo Agustín Conde in the electoral list of Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP) for the Madrid Community elections on May 4, 2021. Something happened to them Similarly, by certifying that neither of the two candidates was registered in the region before January 1, as established by the electoral law for the period of those elections.

Cantó was number five on the list, and Conde, number 23. The case escalated to the Constitutional Court, which it ratified: to be eligible in a territory, you must appear in its census two months before the elections, to "avoid registration of convenience," the court noted.

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