The Ministry of the Interior has mistakenly assigned councilors to parties that have not obtained the minimum 5% representation in the Cabildos of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
The Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime specifies in its article 180 that the attribution of positions is carried out without taking into account those candidacies that do not obtain at least 5% of the valid votes cast in the constituency.
In the case of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, councilors were assigned to Ciudadanos, Somos Lanzarote and LAVA without having the minimum required by the electoral regime law. In Fuerteventura, they were granted to Ciudadanos and PP-Majo.
The new distribution would shake the correlations of forces known during the night of this Sunday. The three seats to be assigned in the island institution of Lanzarote would go to the three most voted forces, in such a way that the socialists continue as winners with nine, followed by Coalición Canaria (CC), with eight, and the Partido Popular (PP) with four. The sum of nationalists and populars would be enough to form an absolute majority.