Neither by the polls nor by the ‘nose to nose’ debates nor by the ‘slogan’ of the events. If the final elections on July 23 are going to be remembered for one thing, it’s as a result of they’re held in the course of summer season. And in a summer season with particularly excessive temperatures that has already left us with two warmth waves with pink warnings from the AEMET in a big a part of Andalusia.
Given this case, one wonders how the warmth will have an effect on election day. Whether or not this circumstance influences abstention stays to be seen. What is obvious is that the residents who’re going to vote and, above all, those that are a part of the polling stations are going to endure the consequences of voting in the course of July, since lots of the amenities the place the polling stations are positioned lack air con or refrigeration system.
This circumstance happens, above all, in Andalusian academic facilities that in a very good quantity do not need any air con system past the basic fan, a circumstance that, actually, has been denounced by the academic neighborhood for a number of years.
18,000 euros for lease
For this motive, in Córdoba they’ve been clear about it and have already adopted measures to alleviate this case. The City Council of this municipality goes to allocate 18,000 euros to lease air con models for that day and cope with the excessive temperatures which are anticipated. These units will probably be used for amenities that do not need these methods.
From the City Council it’s estimated that some 50 polling stations within the metropolis lack refrigeration. In complete, the rental of 70 units that will probably be bolstered with 90 followers is deliberate.
Other measures that the City Council goes to take is to evaluation {the electrical} set up in faculties that do have air conditioners upfront of 23-J and find the polling stations within the rooms which have these units.
“You should put your self within the worst state of affairs and assume that if this week we attain 44 levels on election day we might be past 40,” mentioned the Infrastructure delegate of the Córdoba City Council, Miguel Ruiz.
Measures are studied in Seville
The folks of Cordoba who’ve been “graced” by being at a polling station and who haven’t been in a position to escape because of holidays or another circumstance already know that, at the very least, they are going to spend 23-J ‘al fresco’. In different Andalusian provincial capitals corresponding to Seville, the City Council remains to be finding out what measures to take to alleviate the consequences of warmth.
Various potentialities are additionally being thought of in Granada, though, for the second, the City Council of this metropolis is considering the location of 150 followers in faculties that do not need air con.
The fact is that nearly ten days earlier than the final elections, there will probably be many citizens and members of the polling stations who face this present day with actual worry on the temperatures which are reached in Andalusia presently of yr.
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