The Central Electoral Board must reply this Thursday to a request from the Post Office to increase the deadline to deposit the postal vote till 2:00 p.m. on Friday. If the reply is not any, the time to deposit the remaining votes will run out this Thursday on the finish of the day.
This, whereas the CCOO and UGT unions have ensured that 91 % of the two,622,808 voters who requested to vote by mail, (some 2,400,000), had already exercised their proper to vote yesterday Wednesday. Another 230,000 residents who had requested to vote by mail had not but exercised their proper to vote, which signifies that 9% of petitioners are lacking to vote.
If this knowledge is confirmed, we might be speaking about figures similar to these of the earlier elections of May 28 or 2019, wherein 9% of people that requested to vote by mail didn’t full the method.
Management stress
Both unions have celebrated the figures and have reiterated that they’ve been achieved due to the “stress” they pressured the Post Office to implement “the mandatory measures to save lots of the marketing campaign.”
“The electoral marketing campaign has gone forward due to the big effort of the Correos employees, because of their professionalism and vocation for public service, a professionalism that they already demonstrated in the course of the pandemic,” the unions have claimed within the letter.
Likewise, they’ve maintained that the virtually 50,000 Post Office employees have recognized find out how to “keep away from” with their professionalism “the shortage of planning and inadequate means” all through the electoral interval. They have additionally distanced themselves from “any conspiracy principle”, which they flatly reject.
open workplaces
For his half, the deputy director of operations of Correos, José Luis Alonso Nistal, introduced that this morning there have been nonetheless some 170,000 paperwork to be collected from publish workplaces.
This is how he defined it in an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, wherein he reminded voters that they’ve the workplaces, these on the afternoon shift, open till 10:00 p.m.
“You can nonetheless decide it up and vote as we speak. We keep our prolonged hours,” he harassed, insisting that “no workplace will likely be closed” if there are individuals in line to train their proper to vote.
Alonso Nistal has harassed that the method is creating “usually”, on the similar time that he has emphasised that the general public firm pays extra time to workers: “It is completely budgeted.”
“The 45,000-employee workforce is doing a rare job,” he praised, earlier than recalling that they’ve employed 21,300 reinforcements for these elections.
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