“O certo é que, máis ca unha reclamación, busco asesoramento. Nun blog no que comenzei a escribir hai un par de anos, atopei cousas incomprensibeis sobre os resuktados electorais das eleccións do 10 – N – 2019 no Reino de España, xestionadas por INDRA SYSTEMS. O “Defensor do pobo” español, non é fiabel. Calquer reclamación de índole electoral desviaa á “Xunta Electoral Central”, e a “Xunta Electoral Central” é precisamente a responsabel dos feitos sobre os que se reclama. Teñen, pois, vostedes idea de cómo poido clarexar as miñas dúbidas? https://asuntosvarios.com/2023/02/28/los-videos-de-la-vanguardia-y-el-mundo-algunas-muestras-de-lo-que-indra-systemas-s-a-transmite-en-directo/ Esta é a entrada LXXX do meu blog, asuntosvarios, das “cuatro muestras” que sinalo, a mostra (i) é un erro; mais, cómo interpretar as mostras ii), iii) e iv)? Coido que a Unión Europea, descoida completamente a tremenda irregularidade coa que operan practicamente a totalidade dos partidos políticos en España.”
“The truth is that, more than a complaint, I’m looking for advice. In a blog that I started writing a couple of years ago, I posted a few incomprehensible things about the results of the 10 – N – 2019 elections in Spain, managed by INDRA SYSTEMS. The Spanish Ombudsman offers not a reliable protection. Any electoral complaint is referred by him to la “Junta Electoral Central”, and la “Junta Electoral Central” is precisely responsible and compliant for the actions complained about. So, do you have any idea how I can clear up my doubts? https://asuntosvarios.com/2023/02/28/los-videos-de-la-vanguardia-y-el-mundo-algunas-muestras-de-lo-que-indra-systemas-s-a-transmite-en-directo/This is entry LXXX of my blog, asuntosvarios, of las “cuatro muestras”, that I point out, sample (i) is a mistake; moreover, how can I interpret samples ii), iii) and iv)? I think the European Union completely disregards the tremendous irregularity with which virtually all political parties in Spain operate.”
On 09/18/2024 Tina Nilsson, Head of the Case- handling Unit replied, I send her reply in the attached file, “If you wish to pursue the matter, I suggest that you contact the Commission and the Authority for the European Political Parties and European Political Foundations and set out the issue you raise in your complaint and the solution you are seeking”, providing me, in addition this list of European institutions for which the Office of the European Ombudsman do have competence, https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/institutions-and-bodies/search-all-eu-institutions-and-bodies_en . In many of them, it seems, INDRA is also almost structurally involved.
INDRA SYSTEMS manages all the electoral processes in Spain, general, regional, local and municipal elections, that is: municipal, European elections, since 2008. Recently, a department under the Ministry of Interior of the current Government of Sanchez Perez – Castejon, a Ministry run by the Judge Magistrate Fernando Grande Marlaska, has renewed the Government contract with INDRA for the management of electoral processes until 2027, for all elections to be held; this is the information that was published in advance by the newspaper EL DEBATE : https://asuntosvarios.com/2023/02/16/las-fotos-del-articulo-citado-en-las-dos-entradas-anteriores-el-mundo-online-esta-en-constante-cambio-la-foto-ayuda-a-fijarlo-no-era-eso-pero-me-lo-recuerda-el-mapa-y-el-territorio/
INDRA also manages electoral processes in several member states of the European Union.
In this answer dated on 09/18/2024 the Head of the Case-handling Unit specifies : As regards the Authority for the European political parties and European political foundations, its role is limited to registering, monitoring and imposing sanctions on European political parties and European political foundations.
We harbor well-founded suspicions about the reality of the company INDRA, which in Spain provides electoral assistance services, helping in recounts, transmission of data, providing electoral material to the more than 55,000 polling stations, within a framework, that of the Spanish electoral system, constituted by the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime, the LOREG 5/1985, which we consider invalid: Spain is the only country in the European Union that orders, LOREG 5/1985 97.3, the destruction, “in the presence of all those present”, of the ballot papers, immediately after their recount in all 55.000 electoral colleges. This, according to all the experts I have been able to consult, also destroys any validation of the result. It’s the ABC of what constitutes a truly democratic election: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_audit.
Why to doubt about INDRA? INDRA seems to be the continuation of two Francoist companies, Ceselsa and CASA, with which the Franco regime took significant steps to develop the industrial and technological potential of the Kingdom of Spain (Spain was established as a kingdom by General Franco in 1947 by means of a Law of Succession to the Headship of the State, one of the Fundamental Laws of Franco regime) in fields related to defense, as aeronautics and avionics, but more responding to strategic needs than intending to play an real pioneering role. INDRA does not have, with respect to the electoral process, its own technology: (i) it does not manufacture the PDAs it claims to distribute in the Electoral Colleges Stations, INDRA has to, according to information obtained consulting OPEN AI resources, OPEN AI was co-founded by Elon Musk, recently appointed advisor to President Trump, in 2015, buy or rent these tablets to Samsumg or other companies, we are waiting to see the contracts; (ii) almost all the news about INDRA come from websites signed by INDRA; iii) even if, as noted, it were a company truly devoted to the manufacture of devices for air defense and aircraft piloting, this does not explain its competence to aggregate election results, the transmission of data from the Colleges to a Unified Data Center, etc., but, even so, iv) no patents are found in INDRA’s name for the various gadgets mentioned in its propaganda.
The legal basis 12) of those on which the European Parliament and the Council are based to adopt Regulation No 1141/2014 on the statute and financing of European Political Parties and European political foundations holds, in its end, “In particular, it is necessary for European political parties and their affiliated European political foundations to respect the values on which the Union is founded, as expressed in Article 2 TEU”. This Article 2 TEU reads: The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
The fact that since 2008 the electoral processes in the Kingdom of Spain, already lacking guarantees under LOREG 5/1985 97.3, destruction of ballots, have been managed by INDRA in this way violates several fundamental rights: Art. 21 UDHR; Art. 1 ICCPR; Art. 20 UDHR / Art. 21 ICCPR; Art. 2 UDHR and ICCPR; Art. 12 UDHR.
Art. 10.1 of Regulation No 1141/2014 reads: “Without prejudice to the procedure laid down in paragraph 3, the Authority shall regularly verify that the conditions for registration laid down in Article 3, and the governance provisions set out in points (a), (b) and (d) to (f) of Article 4(1) and points (a) to (e) and (g) of Article 5(1), continue to be complied with by registered European political parties and European political foundations.”
Art. 10.2, on the other hand, states : “2. If the Authority finds that any of the conditions for registration or governance provisions referred to in paragraph 1, with the exception of the conditions in point (c) of Article 3(1) and point (c) of Article 3(2), are no longer complied with, it shall notify the European political party or foundation concerned.”
Art. 11.3 of REG. No 1141/2014, regarding the committee of eminent independent persons, established in 11.1, points out as its main competence: “3. When requested by the Authority, the committee shall give an opinion on any possible manifest and serious breach of the values on which the Union is founded, as referred to in point (c) of Article 3(1) and point (c) of Article 3(2), by a European political party or a European political foundation. To that end, the committee may request any relevant document and evidence from the Authority, the European Parliament, the European political party or European political foundation concerned, other political parties, political foundations or other stakeholders, and it may request to hear their representatives.”
I believe that there are grounds, according to 16 1, 2 of REG No 1141/2014, to request the termination of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party for the contract until 2027 of INDRA for the electoral management. The bad thing is that no party in the State of Spain is free, it seems, from this borderline situation.
29.1 opens up, in any case, the possibility that ‘the Authority or the Authorising Officer of the European Parliament shall give the European political party or the European political foundation concerned an opportunity to introduce the measures required to remedy the situation within a reasonable period of time, which shall not normally exceed one month.’
Perhaps this could be the solution referred to by the Office of the European Ombudsman: to urge, in the first instance, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party to correct, or explain, the reason for the contract that EL DEBATE considers anomalous with INDRA.
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