A flood of suspicious votes slows down the "Christmas in the window" competition organized by the Municipality of Sassari to reward the most skilled and imaginative traders in decorating their shops for the holidays.

The race – which was offering 1,500 euros for first place, a thousand for second and 500 for third – ended a few days ago. But the voting methods, through the likes of the photos of the shop windows, published on the Facebook page of the town hall , aroused perplexity and so the result was frozen by the manager of the productive activities sector of Palazzo Ducale, Giovanni Agatau.

A measure taken in self-defense after two of the 23 participants complained of fraud.

«The suspicious nature of hundreds of votes attributed to one contestant on the last voting day and to another contestant in the last hours before the close of the vote itself, thus signaling an alleged unfair competition deriving from the purchase of packets of likes to get more votes », writes the manager in the document with which, in self-protection, he suspends the competition, soliciting the intervention of the junta.

"The competition will not be canceled out of respect for the participants", specifies the councilor Alessandra Corda . «We will appoint – adds Corda – a specific commission to elect the winners of the prize, without considering the votes received on the Facebook page».

(Unioneonline/lf)

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