Democracy No official results of the Spanish referendum on the TCE available Propaganda

THE SEARCH FOR THE OFFICIAL RESULTS

The Spanish official sites on the referendum do not exist anymore, or either fail or fool you when one tries to get the official results :

  The official link as given by the English wikipedia page for the Spanish referendum on the TCE : Official referendum results [2] this website does not exist anymore [3].

  "The European Constitution" website from the CIDEL project [4], has a very complete page about the Spanish ratification of the ECT . It gives the official results [5], but the link to the official results is a broken link to a EUBusiness.com page citing a AFP [6] source.

  Now, the official websites from the Government...

• The Interior Ministry : the ’Elecciones’ page, and...
  • the link to what could have been an official source, but is a failing page : ’Base histórica de resultados electorales’. One can try the links on the left to see how poor is its content... [7]
  • the link to ’Webs procesos electorales anteriores’ and its page dedicated to the ECT referendum.
    • From there, try to get the results on the ’SOLICITUD DE RESULTADOS’ page, the most relevant page found. Give your email address and press enter...
    • One will not neihter find any result in the FAQ nor the ’REFERÉNDUM EN CIFRAS’ page.
• The Public Administration Ministry : Could you help me in this jungle ?
• The Ministry of the Foreign Affairs : I have only found their ECT propaganda page yet : ’La Constitutiòn Europea’. But one can try to look for ’resultados referendum’ in their internal search engine... worthless.
• Unfortunately, one cannot search the official publication of the results in the Official Journal of the Spanish institutions.

THE POST REFERENDUM PROPAGANDA

The Spanish authorities emphasise the possibility given to the popupaltion to have a say about the ratification on the website they dedicate to the ECT. But its page dedicated to the referendum and the ’online’ one are probably all you can find on the official websites about the referendum !

CONCLUSION

As largely mentionned in the Spanish referendum monitoring report, the lack of debate and real campaign made this referendum unfair according to international standards criterias.

But afterwards, nothing is done to improve this shouting lack of democracy in such a weighting country in Europe as Spain. Even the EU institutions are not so "prompt" to hide much thing about democracy [8], as the Eurobarometters remains available online, very often revealing the Union’s democratic problems.

One can now understand how embarrassing thoses figures are for the Spanish authorities, as mentionned in the wikipedia encyclopedia. Not much the great results than the shameful participation.

The propaganda from the Spanish authorities, barely hidden, is unacceptable regarding the democracy values of fairness and freedom.

PS : The official results of the Spanish referendum on the TCE have finally been made available online