Scandal in Misiones: they recorded mayor handing out ballots amid election ban

The video that shows Mayor Carlos Koth distributing ballots for his sublema in the midst of an electoral ban quickly went viral via social media. (Photo: TN capture)

A scandal He was unleashed this Saturday in Missions after the mayor of the city of Puerto Rico, Carlos Koth, of the Front de Rénovation, outside recorded the distribution of ballots in the middle of the season election in this province for the legislative elections to be held this Sunday.

There are also reports that officials and activists responding to Koth have distributed food bags in vulnerable neighborhoods so that they vote for their problem in the election.

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The video in which he watches Koth distributing his group’s ballots at a greengrocer in Puerto Rico has been made quickly viral through the social networks.

In dialogue with TN Vanesa Cuba, who directed the filming, assured: “It is scandalous because it is about our mayor, but even if some do we must not naturalize this infamous form do politics. Because some with their fanaticism policies end up justifying the unjustifiable ”.

The woman explained that “I went to the mall to shop and encountered this situation. They were seen at officials, Al Mayor already candidates for councilors, because here in Misiones this Sunday we have legislative elections. It was something huge, because it looked like many activists distribute ballots ”.

In this sense, Cuba added: “I was surprised because they were doing in good shape. complitly normal but breaking the rules, and that’s why I decided to pull out my cell phone and start filming this situation you see ”.

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However, the woman was not only a witness at the time of the attempt to “buy votes”. “Even yesterday I was sitting in the garden of my house and saw that a well-known official in the city he parked and with his people began to unload bags of goods. The people of the neighborhood, who cross a bad timing, saw this and know approached alone. And there were even neighbors who had not received anything and that after seeing the official’s car start they ran after of him to try to get them something ”.

“Am i it hurt me very much see how people were humiliated upon receipt of bags of merchandise in exchange for your vote. I know the people who delivered this merchandise, and that’s why I greeted them and reminded them that it is not allowed do what they were doing, ”Cuba added in its description of the irregular scenario observed in the middle of the electoral veda on a mission.