Mustafa Aberchán

Mustafa Hamed Mohamed (October 17, 1959) is a Spanish politician who served as the Mayor-President of Melilla from 5 July 1999 to 19 July 2000, and is the leader of Coalition for Melilla. Aberchán was convicted of vote buying by the Supreme Court of Spain in 2021, and was arrested for vote buying in 2024.

Career

Coalition for Melilla (CPM) was formed when members of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) left in 1995.Template:Sfn Aberchán is the leader of CPM.Template:Sfn On 3 July 1999 he became Mayor-President of Melilla with the support of PSOE and the Independent Liberal Group. He was the first Muslim to hold the positionTemplate:Sfn and served until a vote of no confidence on 19 July 2000.Template:Sfn He funds a charity in the Gaza Strip and attempted to visit it in 2012 and 2013, but was prevented from doing so by Israel.Template:Sfn CPM became a coalition partner in the government after the 2019 election.Template:Sfn

The Supreme Court of Spain sentenced Aberchán to two years in prison in 2021, for participating in a vote buying scheme during the 2008 election and he was also barred from running for office for two and a half years.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz ordered the Anti-Corruption Office in 2023 to investigate allegations of vote buying in Melilla by CPM. Votes were being bought for €100-150. Mohamed Ahmed Al-lal, a former minister and third on the CPM's electoral list, was arrested alongside 9 other people.Template:Sfn Felipe Heredia Núñez, the former president of CD Huracán Melilla, allegedly said that he bought more than 500 votes for CPM. Aberchán was arrested alongside five other people on 5 March 2024.Template:Sfn The CPM's vote total fell from 10,472 in 2019, to 5,557 in the 2023 election.Template:Sfn