Calderon faces charges over 2006 election

"There are serious indications that a considerable number of postal votes were falsified, not for the benefit of one candidate, but to prejudice it and to put a question mark over this form of voting," the judge said in the ruling.

"There are signs that numerous people were involved in one form or another in the various plots for the collection and falsification of the postal votes."

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