The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has made it clear that the police investigation, which is being carried out in Melilla in the face of an alleged plot to buy votes, is under the judicial authority and that the sole purpose of the investigation is to ensure that the Melilla citizens vote in freedom.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city, in an interview with Cadena Ser yesterday afternoon, explained that the objective of the Government of Spain is to look after Melilla, regardless of the political color of the formations. “If there is a plot, if there is a possible fraud behind all this, the Government Delegation does not care what political color is behind it. What we want is an end to corruption,” he said.
In fact, in Moh’s opinion, all political formations, regardless of their ideology, should be happy with the action being taken by the rule of law to ensure the cleanliness of the democratic process.
At this point, Moh has acknowledged that he finds very worrying the statements of some cepemist leaders pretending to put the focus on the Delegation and accusing this entity of persecuting a political party. “That is not true and you cannot be blurring the name of an institution and a professional work that many people are doing to ensure that all Melillense citizens vote in freedom,” he said.
As the Delegate has pointed out, the person who gives the instructions to the police is the judicial authority. “They cannot send that message to the citizens, because in the end what we do is harm the image of the institutions and try to make them believe that something like this can happen when it is impossible in a Rule of Law,” he argued. “A government delegate cannot order the police or the Civil Guard to politically persecute anyone,” she said.
“The police act under the guidance of the judicial authority and anything other than saying that is false information,” he said. A message, he added, that besides being false is “dangerous” because “it attacks democracy and we cannot consent to it”.
The Government Delegate has taken advantage of her radio intervention to highlight the great work being done by the National Police and has pointed out that the only objective sought by this police force is to “clarify what is happening, regardless of the political color behind this possible fraud”.
For this reason, he pointed out that all political formations should be sending a message in unison of support to the State Security Forces and Corps and in the interest of clarifying what is happening and that the citizens know the truth “so that the Melillenses choose their representatives in the Assembly freely and cleanly.”
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During the radio interview, Sabrina Moh referred to the security device that will be deployed on Election Day with about 600 members of the National Police, the Civil Guard and the Local Police.
“We have designed this device in collaboration between the security forces with 241 National Police officers, 213 of the Civil Guard, and 140 of the Local Police,” he explained. “Logically, the local police will act within the polling stations and the National Police abroad, with the support of the Civil Guard,” he said.
In short, the Delegate has pointed out a broad mechanism to guarantee security and freedom. “In this legislature we have dropped 15 points in the crime rate, Melilla is a safer city,” recalled Moh, who has made it clear that “when we see more agents on the street, it is synonymous with a safer city,” he argued.
This same situation, extrapolated to the day of the elections, with such an important deployment “guarantees to all the Melillense citizens that no one can increase or coerce them when it comes to depositing the vote, but that they can go freely to vote for whomever they choose,” he said.
“The police aren’t going to get into what ballot you’re carrying. No. No. They are simply there to guarantee us that security that gives us the possibility to vote in freedom and to have as few incidents as possible,” he concluded.