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Postal voting has been highly controversial
The Electoral Council of Real Madrid has revealed the new procedure for the elections to be held next Sunday, in the background of the fierce battle for the position of president.
There was widespread controversy surrounding the postal vote after candidate Enrique Riquelme announced that his rival. Florentino Perezwas able to access the membership list and send him an envelope containing his ballot, while Riquelme’s team was denied.
The Electoral Commission confirmed that Riquelme’s team submitted its application after the deadline, of which they were officially informed, they said.
Real Madrid’s Electoral Board issued a statement informing the club’s two presidential candidates, Florentino Perez and Enrique Riquelme, of the procedures for counting postal votes.
The official message of the commission says:
The Electoral Council, while carrying out the functions of supervision, control and guarantee of the electoral process assigned to it by the Social Charter, the Electoral Regulations and the Operational Development Agreement (Annex II), properly informs about the announced nominations about the following:
To proceed with the removal of postal votes deposited in the PO; Box No. 6031 provided for this purpose, in addition to the procedures for receiving, validating, sealing, transporting and storing as prescribed by the electoral regulations and Annex II, one (1) duly accredited intervener must be summoned for each candidate who wishes to participate in these proceedings.
Observers should arrive on June 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM at the Electoral Council office in Real Madrid.
At 2:00 p.m., a vehicle will depart from these offices to take attendees to the Post Office, where PO Box #6031 is located. Attendance is not guaranteed for those arriving after this time, so please be punctual.
Postal voting procedures
The planned activities will be carried out as follows:
1. Before going to the post office, the notary of the club records the day, time and place of the start of the proceedings, as well as the identity of the members of the electoral council and the representatives of the nominations present at the session, using the appropriate statement or participation register.
2. The notary of the club, Mr. Cruz Gonzalo Lopez Mueller Gomez, or, if applicable, his legal representative, will proceed with the disposal of the election correspondence stored at PO Box #6031.
3. Postal ballots will be placed in designated containers and sealed in accordance with the electoral regulations and Annex II.
4. The notary prepares notarial or attendance protocols related to the receipt, withdrawal and sealing of the received election documents.
5. All the above procedures will be carried out in the presence of the present members of the Electoral Council and the representatives of the present candidates.
6. Once these procedures are completed, the electoral documents will be transferred from the post office to the headquarters of the Electoral Council in Madrid, where the notary, members of the Electoral Council and observers will travel together in the same car.
7. When the sealed containers arrive at the headquarters of the electoral commission, they are kept in the room intended for their storage in the presence of the notary of the club, the members of the electoral commission present and the representatives of the candidates who participated in these procedures. The notary records this deposit with an official document or attendance record. After that, the containers remain in the closed room mentioned above in accordance with the provisions of the election system and Annexure II.
Attendees will be able to check the integrity of containers and their seals when placing them in storage.
Steps to strengthen transparency and confidence in the integrity of Real Madrid’s elections
This room will remain locked and under 24-hour surveillance by the club’s security services. It will also be equipped with video surveillance systems, which will operate continuously throughout the entire period of storage of election documents.
In order to promote transparency and confidence in postal vote storage procedures, candidates who so request may appoint one of their duly accredited observers to remain in the vicinity of the storage area at all times during the period that postal votes remain there.
This presence is limited to observation only and does not confer any authority to preserve, control, access or interfere with election documents, containers, seals or postal votes. Observers may also not enter the warehouse or its contents, except in the cases and procedures expressly provided for in the election regulations and Appendix II, or with the approval of the election board in the presence of the notary of the club, if necessary.
The presence of auditors in the specified area must be understood to be in accordance with the existing control and security systems in the Club’s facilities and in a place subject to an existing video surveillance system and relevant image processing in accordance with the applicable regulations.
For organizational purposes, candidates are requested to contact us as soon as possible.
a) Will they attend the above-mentioned events or not?
b) the identity of the auditor who will represent the candidate;
c) A mobile phone number to contact the above auditor for the sole purpose of locating him in the event of an incident related to the implementation of the required procedures.
The absence of representatives of one or both of the candidates will not hinder or suspend the planned procedures.
