The president of the Autonomous City of Melilla, Eduardo de Castro, has decided to dismiss the councilor for Youth and Citizen Participation, Mohamed Ahmed Al-Lal, allegedly involved in the scandal of the alleged purchase of votes by mail in the 28M elections. Mohamed Ahmed belongs to the Coalición por Melilla, one of the two parties – the other is the PSOE – with which De Castro has governed in coalition since 2019 after being elected deputy as the sole representative of Ciudadanos, a party with which he has ended up breaking relations.
The cessation order has been published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette of the Autonomous City (BOEM). The reasons, as De Castro has explained to this newsroom, are “due to loss of confidence” after the serious accusations against him, “that will have to be proven,” he stated. The president of Melilla assures that he does not want to judge the facts, but considers that he cannot keep a person under suspicion in his government.
The police operation was triggered yesterday, Tuesday, after agents of the National Police arrested ten people for the massive fraud attempt to purchase mail-in votes in Melilla. Among the detainees is a son-in-law of Mustafá Aberchán, leader of the Coalition for Melilla party, according to sources close to the device, and the councilor for Districts, Youth and Citizen Participation in the Melilla government, Mohamed Ahmed Al-Lal, now dismissed. . All were released waiting for the judge to call them to testify as investigated in the near future. All of them are accused of an electoral crime and another of belonging to a criminal organization.
For days, the Investigating Court number 2 of Melilla has been the one who has kept the case open, which remains secret. In the records that have been carried out so far, ballots were found – in quantities much lower than the 10,000 vote requests that have not yet been deposited in the Post Office – and money, according to what sources close to the investigation told this newsroom.
