7 arrests in investigating election fraud in Ninove (Ninove)
Guy d’haeseleer of Forza Ninove became mayor of Ninove after the 2024 municipal elections. He would not be with the arrested.
Seven people were arrested in the investigation into the alleged election fraud in Ninove, reports the public prosecutor of East Flanders. According to our information, Mayor Guy D’Haeseleer was not arrested, but some people from his immediate environment.
The persons are suspected of forgery and will be interrogated by the police in the course of Tuesday. « Such an interrogation entails a lot and can therefore take a long time, » said the public prosecutor of East Flanders. « At the moment we can only confirm that the arrests have happened. It is much too early to respond to the identity or ages of the arranged. »
According to our information, Guy D’Haeseleer of Forza Ninove, who was sworn in this year as the new mayor of Ninove, was not arrested, but there would be people from his immediate area among the detainees. For the time being it is still a detection investigation and no investigating judge has been appointed for the time being.
Fake certificates
According to our information, the researchers are in possession of forged medical certificates and also spoke with people who had given a proxy with such a falsified certificate. Now they are looking for who has set up the system of the forged certificate.
Normally the arrests would have happened earlier, but the action was postponed due to the health problems of D’Haeseleer.
1,618 votes
Forza Ninove, with Guy D’Haeseleer in the lead, won the municipal elections in Ninove with an absolute majority, with about 500 votes on surplus surplus. However, 1,618 votes were also cast by proxy, good for one in fourteen votes. On the day of the municipal elections, they were all seized to investigate whether there was a system to convert doctor’s certificates without a consultation into the voting booth.
Through the investigation, D’Haeseleer was only able to take the oath as a new mayor at the end of March. Despite the judicial investigation, no one objected to the election results.
