The day that the founder of Mango ruined the elections for Carme Chacón

BarcelonaThe 2016 general elections were not just another election day for Carme Chacón. They were the first in three elections that she did not lead the PSC's candidacy for Barcelona. The former Minister of Defense, who passed away a year later, had resigned from repeating as head of the list after going from touching the sky to the most resounding failure.

If in 2008, when she debuted as head of the list, she achieved the PSC's best results in a general election with 25 deputies (16 for Barcelona), in 2015, the Catalan socialists crashed with the worst records in their history with only 8 deputies (5 for Barcelona).

What Chacón did not expect was what would end up happening on that June 26, 2016, the day the elections were held. Accustomed to the media recording the moment of her voting, she thought that this time she would be able to vote calmly and go home. But things went wrong.

She had been summoned as a substitute polling station member at the Isabel de Villena School in Esplugues de Llobregat, her usual voting place, but the incumbent member did not show up and she had to remain at the table all day, where a year earlier she had cast her ballot amidst great expectation.

Curiously, the member who did not show up was not an unknown person. It was Nahman Andic, the now-retired co-founder and former vice president of Mango, and brother of the former president and also founder of this textile company, Isak Andic, who died two years ago after falling down a ravine in the Montserrat massif, in a case in which his son is under investigation.