Legal vote-rigging: the 2031 plan nobody stops
Sánchez is targeting 2031 with control of Indra, Correos and 2.5 million new CERA votes. The opposition is not stopping the legal gerrymandering, and ethnocide advances unchecked.
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Legal vote-rigging: the PSOE's roadmap to 2031 and ethnocide underway
Pedro Sánchez wants eight more years. It slipped out in Congress — he corrected it to four — but the course is set until 2031, at least. And it is no accident: behind it lies a strategy of electoral engineering that combines control of the vote count with a massive expansion of the electoral roll through the CERA vote (the ballot of Spanish residents abroad). Two and a half million new voters living overseas, mostly from countries where the PSOE sweeps the board, fast-tracked to citizenship. The result, if nothing stops it, is a hegemonic party entrenched in power.
Controlling the count: Indra, Correos and the CIS
The first pillar of the rigging is control of the tools that count the votes. Indra runs the electoral software, Correos handles postal voting, and the CIS produces the polls that set the agenda. All three depend directly or indirectly on the government. Whoever hand-picks the heads of Indra is, according to multiple analysts, handing the key to the ballot box to the very party standing in the election. The algorithms that process the results are not public, and the margin for manipulation is real — especially when millions of postal and overseas votes never pass through conventional polling stations.
The CERA vote: 2.5 million captive votes for the PSOE
The second pillar is the CERA vote, that of residents abroad. According to the figures cited by critics of the system, the PSOE is naturalising citizens from South American countries at an accelerating pace; once they obtain citizenship, they register on the overseas electoral roll. In recent legislatures some 2.5 million new CERA voters would have been added, and this group's vote goes mostly to the PSOE. It is no coincidence: it is the result of deliberate immigration and naturalisation policies, whose cost in non-contributory pensions, benefits and allowances is estimated in the tens of billions of euros. The question nobody answers is: if these new voters could not vote, would they have been brought in at all?
The opposition absent; the UCO as the only hope
Meanwhile, the parliamentary opposition limits itself to protesting without lifting a finger: no appeals to the Constitutional Court, no investigative committees, no systematic public complaints. The only real resistance, as seen in recent weeks, comes from the Guardia Civil's Central Operative Unit (UCO), which keeps several lines of investigation open into the alleged corruption network surrounding the government. Some analysts even bet on banning the PSOE as the only way out, but the judicial route is slow and the electoral calendar waits for no one.
Between control of the vote and abstention as a response — "the best form of dissent is not to participate", Solzhenitsyn wrote — the scenario taking shape is that of a regime entrenched until 2031 or beyond. And for now, nobody does anything to prevent it.
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Pedro Sánchez wants eight more years. It slipped out in Congress — he corrected it to four — but the course is set until 2031, at least. And it is no accident: behind it lies a strategy of electoral engineering that combines control of the vote count with a massive expansion of the electoral roll through the CERA vote (the ballot of Spanish residents abroad). Two and a half million new voters living overseas, mostly from countries where the PSOE sweeps the board, fast-tracked to citizenship. The result, if nothing stops it, is a hegemonic party entrenched in power.
Controlling the count: Indra, Correos and the CIS
The first pillar of the rigging is control of the tools that count the votes. Indra runs the electoral software, Correos handles postal voting, and the CIS produces the polls that set the agenda. All three depend directly or indirectly on the government. Whoever hand-picks the heads of Indra is, according to multiple analysts, handing the key to the ballot box to the very party standing in the election. The algorithms that process the results are not public, and the margin for manipulation is real — especially when millions of postal and overseas votes never pass through conventional polling stations.
The CERA vote: 2.5 million captive votes for the PSOE
The second pillar is the CERA vote, that of residents abroad. According to the figures cited by critics of the system, the PSOE is naturalising citizens from South American countries at an accelerating pace; once they obtain citizenship, they register on the overseas electoral roll. In recent legislatures some 2.5 million new CERA voters would have been added, and this group's vote goes mostly to the PSOE. It is no coincidence: it is the result of deliberate immigration and naturalisation policies, whose cost in non-contributory pensions, benefits and allowances is estimated in the tens of billions of euros. The question nobody answers is: if these new voters could not vote, would they have been brought in at all?
The opposition absent; the UCO as the only hope
Meanwhile, the parliamentary opposition limits itself to protesting without lifting a finger: no appeals to the Constitutional Court, no investigative committees, no systematic public complaints. The only real resistance, as seen in recent weeks, comes from the Guardia Civil's Central Operative Unit (UCO), which keeps several lines of investigation open into the alleged corruption network surrounding the government. Some analysts even bet on banning the PSOE as the only way out, but the judicial route is slow and the electoral calendar waits for no one.
Between control of the vote and abstention as a response — "the best form of dissent is not to participate", Solzhenitsyn wrote — the scenario taking shape is that of a regime entrenched until 2031 or beyond. And for now, nobody does anything to prevent it.
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