On March 2, 2009, after watching the live television broadcast of the provisional results of the Galician parliamentary elections held on Sunday, March 1, I posted on Znet that, after a victory over the opposition as a whole by only one seat, and with 355.000 votes from absentee residents still to be counted, the final tally would take place on the 9th, which could mean another 12 seats if they were concentrated in one party, I did not understand why everyone both the winner and the losers, considered the victory to be a done deal.
Doing so cost me severely. I was imprisoned in a mental hospital for 50 days and, four months later, I was subjected to legal proceedings to have me declared legally incompetent.
The fact is that today, i) I find that Wikinews in Spanish, in a news item archived seven years ago and periodically revised, gives the same information as I did: a victory by 1 seat; but ii) all the press I see on the Internet, El PAIS, El MUNDO, the two main newspapers here, give on the same day, March 1, a more comfortable victory by 3 seats.
i) https://es.wikinews.org/wiki/Concluyen_las_elecciones_al_Parlamento_de_Galicia_de_2009
Same data, same day, here: https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/especiales2009/eleccionesgallegas/index.htm
BUT:
ii.i) https://elpais.com/diario/2009/03/02/espana/1235948401_850215.html#?rel=listaapoyo
ii.ii) https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/03/01/espana/1235938725.html
*More on this from a draft in my blog asuntosvarios (https://asuntosvarios.com) https://asuntosvarios.com/2025/05/10/mas-sobre-el-1m2009/
This is a group on “corporate-media” and I would like to raise a question: Was there a discrepancy between the press and the live results on election day? Was it an error by Wikinews (and mine)? Or, let’s call it, a case of “poisoning” after the fact?