The Constitutional Court holds MAI responsible for printing bulletins with the name of a candidate who only submitted 11 signatures – O Jornal Económico



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To make an application official, it is necessary to collect at least 7,500 signatures and send them to the Constitutional Court (TC). Besides Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, André Ventura, Ana Gomes, Marisa Matias, Tiago Mayan, João Ferreira and Vitorino Silva, Eduardo Baptista also validated his candidacy, but with only 11 signatures.

The bulletins have already begun to be printed and the newspaper “Expresso” found that the responsibility for what happened is attributed to the Minister of Internal Administration (MAI), Eduardo Cabrita. “All applications submitted are drawn, regardless of their validation,” said an official source of the Constitutional Court, adding that “only on the 30th is a sentence with all the information and necessary corrections to the applications.

When asked about the printing of the ballots with the name of a candidate who is not eligible, the TC source was clear in the answer: “Everything related to the ballots is the responsibility of the MAI.”

In addition to the responsibility assigned to him, Eduardo Cabrita allegedly asked the TC to advance the draw at noon on Monday, December 28, you know, so that the bulletins could be printed in time to be distributed on time. early voting. So far, the MAI has not yet ruled on the matter.



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