Police check of the car by the Group for the Prevention and Suppression of Crime in the city of Karditsa went last saturday evening five arrests for violating the electoral law and attempt to buy votes. The police found 197 identification cards, a passport, photocopies of identification cards, and a bag with 114 closed envelopes containing his candidate’s cards in the car. SYRIZA Giorgos Vaiopoulos and five bulletins with his name crossed out. In total, two detainees were found to have 6,060 euros.

According to a dossier filed by the Karditsa Security Department, one of the detainees allegedly contacted another person to approach voters in the Roma village of Sofades to vote for a candidate. It is reported that the fee that each voter was to receive for this choice in the ballot box was 20 euros.

Three of the five perpetrators are said to have had professional and friendly relations with the candidate and said they went to the site to hand out ballots but did not accept the allegations that they intended to fund voters. Two of the five detainees confessed to the charges incriminated to them during the investigation. It is expected that today all of them will apologize to the prosecutor of first instance of the city of Karditsa by way of self-incrimination.

pesticides

In the village of Mastro in Etoloakarnania, when a court representative arrived at a school to open a polling station, unidentified persons threw pesticides and wrote slogans against a certain party in the school yard, as a result of which the polling station was transferred to a neighboring school.

The rest of the electoral process went off without surprises. Singular Logic did not provide the first voter assessment, which was due at 10:30 a.m., because no polling place was notified.