The president of a polling station at the Colegio Nuestra Señora de la Consolación, in the Madrid district of Chamartín, has forced a middle-aged man to put on a T-shirt with the slogan “Que te vote Txapote” inside out in order to exercise his right to vote in the general elections this Sunday.
As EFE has been able to verify, the man went to the polling station minutes before 11 a.m. wearing a black T-shirt with the aforementioned phrase written in the colors of the national flag, something prohibited by the Central Electoral Board (JEC).
Last Thursday, the JEC indicated that it was forbidden to go to vote with an item of clothing with that motto and reminded voters that electoral propaganda cannot be carried out in schools and their surroundings.
He responded to a query that the Provincial Police Station of Jaén sent him after messages were spread on social networks encouraging the electorate to go to schools with a shirt with that phrase and with the shield of the Spanish State.
While waiting his turn, the man has placed a backpack on the front part of his shirt that hid the slogan “Que te vote Txapote”.
But just before handing over the identity document to the members of the polling station, he uncovered the shirt when he put the backpack on his back, at which time several PSOE interveners reminded the president of the polling station that he could not cast his vote showing such a slogan.
For this reason, the person in charge of the table has asked the voter to put on the shirt inside out -with the motto on the inside- to deposit the envelopes in the polls.
After exercising his right to vote, the man cut the sleeves of one of the PSOE interveners and left the polling station.
