Andrade is targeted for electoral fraud in Sunca

A group of workers and former union members from the construction union filed a complaint with the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) for several electoral frauds in elections held in Sunca over the years.

The complaint was filed with the MEC because the union has legal status, and this ministry is responsible for overseeing organizations with such status.

Serious irregularities

These serious irregularities indicate that in the union's leadership elections, particularly in the March 2023 elections, where the faction linked to the CommunistParty of Uruguay (PCU), the AgustínPedroza group list, obtained the majority of votes with participation from more than 32,000 workers, there was massive electoral fraud.

The complainants allege that the electoral processes lacked proper controls, with practices including vote manipulation and lack of accountability.

It is noted that these irregularities have occurred for several years, even since the time when ÓscarAndrade led the union.

Ballot box theft

The union elections are held over two or three consecutive days, and several workers have pointed out that after the election the ballot box mysteriously disappears, and then it reappears showing signs of tampering.

In all the elections where fraud is reported, the winning list is the one aligned with the Communist Party (PCU) of Andrade and Daniel Diverio, former leader of Sunca and current deputy of that Party.

The Manuel Barrios union faction, a minority group, issued a statement this Friday the 27th regarding the complaint made by several members.

This union faction, which is not part of the PCU, believes that there have been successive electoral frauds in Sunca in favor of the majority list, made up of PCU union members.

The MEC must investigate the electoral frauds, although it is very difficult to reach a satisfactory outcome, since the elections took place years ago and evidence is scarce.

Opacity in union elections is not new. Minority factions have been pointing out for years the murkiness of the electoral processes, where the winning list is always the one dominated by the PCU.

Current senator Oscar Andrade was for many years the main union leader of Sunca.

It is obvious that he must be aware of these electoral frauds that occurred in several union elections.

Diverio is in the same situation, as Sunca's number one for several years it is more than obvious that he was fully aware of the electoral frauds.

The mega scam

In addition to the frauds in union elections, the prosecutor's office led by Gilberto Rodríguez continues to investigate the mega scam of 1,200,000 dollars perpetrated in the Construction Fund by PCU union members.

Several union members, all from the PCU, have already been criminally convicted for the mega scam.

The Communist Party turned the construction union into a den of corruption.

In addition to appropriating 1,200,000 dollars, they committed electoral frauds betraying the trust of the members.

Everything is murky and dark.