24 hours after Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s insinuation, apparently harmless, fueling suspicions about voting by mail, plainly the storm is subsiding. The PP candidate informed the postmen to work day and evening “independently of his bosses” so that every one the votes have been distributed by mail and that, in fact, appeared like a veiled accusation.
At his assembly on Thursday afternoon, a day later, Pedro Sánchez went by way of the problem with a tangential reference. He has accused the proper of all the time making use of “any methodology to achieve energy and undermine the credibility of the socialists.” A phrase in your complete intervention after a day with postal suffrage because the protagonist in all of the interviews. In the case of Feijóo, he has not addressed the postmen this time, nor has he talked about voting by mail.
However, he has emphasised that the PP “seizes the Institutions”, though those he has named have been others such because the TC, the CGPJ or the CIS. In the final stretch of his speech, he has talked about the uncertainty of those elections as a result of date and the 12 million Spaniards who shall be exterior his home, however he has not talked about suffrage by mail both.
The two leaders appear to have turned the web page after a protagonism of the matter within the every day debate of the electoral marketing campaign in the course of the afternoon of Wednesday and virtually all of Thursday. The public firm Correos itself has entered into the battle to vindicate itself and be sure that the method was assured with 20,400 contracts to strengthen its employees and the measure to increase workplace hours to even on Sunday. And plainly this and the statements of the unions have helped to scale back the anger.
The deputy director of operations José Luis Alonso Nistal has not stopped giving interviews all day. Meanwhile, the unions clarified that their calls for are one factor and the assure of the vote-by-mail course of is one other, which they don’t query, and that time beyond regulation is assured and included within the settlement and budgets.
And so, little by little, the waters have calmed down on a course of wherein the squad is doing lots of its half. 30% of employees have voluntarily modified the date of their trip to work throughout lately, wherein 7% of the census have requested to vote remotely. Throughout Spain, the supply males search for the recipients to ship the documentation; they reply their doubts and questions on the road; and plenty of of them will work the weekend. They are “taking a beating,” Miguel Mora, of the Libre de Correos union, assured this Friday within the AR program after feeling that the work of postmen and workplace employees was being questioned.
Miguel Angel Mora in AR
Feijóo’s veiled accusation has been lowered little by little. On Thursday morning, he already assured that he had not spoken of a pot gap, however of the site visitors jams and had requested for the vote by mail on social networks. But what was mentioned was mentioned. In addition, the primary message had the assistance of his spokesperson Cuca Gamarra, who mentioned that “it might appear that the Post Office just isn’t being diligent.” For his half, Santiago Abascal blames the unions by mentioning that they’re those who’ve spoken of “many difficulties” and that the rise in personnel “has been an actual deception.”
The first statements by Feijóo, who in his day directed the Post Office, deeply upset PSOE and Sumar. While Yolanda Díaz accused him of telling lies, Sánchez reproached him for undermining belief within the Institutions. For the left, along with sowing doubts within the Government, the shadow of the pot gap is an excuse previous to electoral outcomes which are worse than these anticipated and people who the polls say.
In truth, the socialist candidate recalled in an interview that after the May 28 elections, wherein the PP and Vox clearly warned of pot-punching, they haven’t mentioned something once more, because the municipal and regional map was dyed blue.
Two and a half million votes by mail
It is anticipated that the votes requested till ten o’clock this Thursday evening shall be two and a half million, a document quantity motivated by the summer season name and with many Spaniards on trip.
Distributing them, postmen like Manolo. In his automotive, this week there’s solely electoral propaganda, votes by mail, and pressing deliveries. He exhibits it to us whereas he talks to us, in a rush, to complete his distribution wherein he has about 80 votes by mail. “These elections have solely highlighted a personnel drawback that already existed,” explains this postman, who, like his colleagues, has been supplied to work on the weekend.
Along the strains of the unions, he speaks of a decreased workforce within the final 5 years, with out new everlasting contracts regardless of the requires positions, and which has gone from having 64,000 structural positions to 54,000. Of them, 30,000 are postmen who lately kick the streets. In his opinion, the issue of Post Office personnel – “with many center managers” – and few base employees, “has been patched up till now, however with the elections it has not been attainable to cover it.”
Manolo distributes in Madrid, one of many areas the place there are extra issues with voting by mail, as a result of quantity of inhabitants: “There should be many reinforcements in order that we will arrive,” he affirms whereas assuring that they’re overwhelmed. Just at that second, a citizen passing by on the road asks to talk to him. Upon his return to the chat, Manolo confirms that he was somebody who was asking about his vote by mail, 24 hours after the operation that happened within the first half of July.
In León, one other supply man, Abel, defined on Twitter on Wednesday that, for instance, he had gone to a petanque courtroom that day to search for a voter who had requested a vote by mail and who had managed to ship one other one in an orchard.
Today, distributing the vote by mail in two cities in La Cepeda (León), in a single I went to search for the recipient on the petanque courtroom and within the different within the orchard. I say this in order that we defend the general public postal service as our personal. No non-public firm will pamper you extra. @Correos pic.twitter.com/dSvf7Dl1fX
— Abel Aparicio (@abel_aparicio_) July 11, 2023
Abel assured that no non-public firm would pamper the service to customers a lot. A service that in 17 electoral processes has labored accurately.
It is true that the proximity of the scandals in Melilla or Mojácar to the vote by mail on May 28 helps fans of hoaxes and conspiracy theories. On that event, the right-wing events made a extra emphatic grievance, as a result of authorized proceedings have been even opened.
The traps, in these circumstances, have been utterly exterior the official course of, because the mafias manipulated the documentation that their bought voters had given them in alternate for as much as 200 euros. Those investigated launched the ballots they needed and have been answerable for depositing the votes by mail.
To cease it, it was determined to ask for identification of the individuals who have been going to solid the votes, thus stopping the identical criminals from persevering with to ship dozens of manipulated ballots. The coup was stopped on time and in not one of the locations affected by these scandals have been the outcomes modified by postal voting.
The excessive numbers of postal suffrage for 23J, turn out to be a breeding floor to sow suspicions, which regularly subside.
Post measures
This Monday, Correos has introduced that workplace hours shall be prolonged till ten at evening in some shops in cities with greater than 50,000 inhabitants. In addition, on Saturday they are going to be open till 9 and on Sunday till midday.
Those workplaces shall be devoted to receiving votes, whereas the postmen will proceed distributing documentation. Because though the deadline to request it ended on Thursday evening, voters will proceed to obtain envelopes and ballots till the sixteenth. To deposit the vote by mail there’s time till Thursday the twentieth, though everybody expects it to be prolonged till Friday , as is all the time achieved.
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