The high temperatures mark the electoral day of this Sunday in all of Catalonia. Fans, fans and a number of bottles of water share space with the ballot boxes in the polling stations.
All of the 8,923 tables in the 2,668 polling stations to vote in 947 municipalities in Catalonia have been set up normally, and voters can exercise their right to vote from 9:00 a.m. this Sunday. Voting will end at 8:00 p.m., although if someone remains inside the polling place at that time, the president of the Bureau will allow voting.
There have been no remarkable incidents and the “usual setbacks have been resolved before the schools open or in a short space of time,” reports the Government Delegation in Catalonia in a statement.
Despite the heatwave, the main candidates have not been early risers and have mostly chosen to attend mid-morning.
The ERC candidate for Congress for Barcelona, ??Gabriel Rufián, has called for participation, and stressed that today the vote is worth the same for all people: “That everyone understands that, unfortunately, the only day where everyone has the same power, the same ability to change and transform things is today”.
Rufián has encouraged people to vote because today is the day that everyone has “the same power as whoever exploits, lies or reprisals you.” “Let everyone be aware”, he has asked himself.
The head of the ERC list, who has voted at the Rodoreda School in Badalona around 9:30 a.m. accompanied by his mother, has also warned that the “democracy party” could end tonight, depending on the electoral result.
At noon, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, spoke to the media after exercising his right to vote at his polling station in Pineda de Mar (Barcelona). “Today we are playing a lot, many elements of our present and our future,” warned the president, for which he has asked the public to “fill the polls with conviction.”
The head of the list of JxCat to the Congress for Barcelona, ??Míriam Nogueras, has voted in Mataró where she has invited “everyone to go vote and that tonight it will be very clear that Catalonia is not just another Spanish province, that Catalonia is a nation. Therefore, that everyone go vote and that the message is clear: neither PP nor PSOE, Catalonia”, he stressed.
The head of the PSC list for Barcelona and president of the Congress of Deputies, Meritxell Batet, has assured that she has “very good feelings” regarding the results of election day after voting at the Antoni Brusi School in Barcelona. In this regard, she has indicated that “each vote counts and each vote can be decisive in defining the future of Spain.”
Batet has encouraged people to vote and has assured that “Catalonia will live up to what these crucial elections are asking for” to determine the future of the country.
Those “good feelings” are shared by the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, who has gone to vote at the Lope de Vega Cultural Center in La Roca del Vallès. Illa has thanked the work of all the people involved in the electoral device, as well as the employees of the Post Office, and has called for participation in an election that he considers “historic”.
The PDeCAT-Espai CiU candidate for Congress, Roger Montañola, encouraged voting and stated that he perceives a “change of times in Catalonia”.
Speaking to journalists this Sunday after voting at his polling station in Premià de Dalt (Barcelona), he predicted a “great night” for his party.
He has been satisfied with the campaign carried out and has asked that people vote what they want: “Here we compare ideas, we don’t hate, we respect everyone whoever they vote for.”
The head of the list of the PP to the Congress for Barcelona, ??Nacho Martín Blanco, expects, for his part, a “very high participation” and has encouraged to vote so that “the change in Spain begins with a magnificent historical result in the province and the whole of Catalonia”. After voting this afternoon at the Casal de Sant Ildefons in Barcelona in the Sarrià Sant-Gervasi district, accompanied by his wife and children, Martín Blanco insisted on “turning the page on this dark period of sanchismo”, where “we want Barcelona and Catalonia to be fundamental”.
The head of the list of the CUP to the Congress for Barcelona, ??Albert Botran, has encouraged this Sunday to vote for “the options that stand up”, even if it is with skepticism, because “less weight of the left and the independence movement in the institutions does not generate favorable scenarios”.
The head of the Vox list for Barcelona, ??Juan José Aizcorbe, has deposited his vote at his polling station in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, and wanted to thank the work of the Vox team in a campaign where “unfortunately we have not been received by the media or by other parties with a stately philosophy, quite the contrary.” In these elections “important things” are chosen and in Catalonia “even more”, he has expressed. He highlighted the “heroism” of the members, affiliates and sympathizers of his formation for their “suffering and sacrifice” that they have made in some places in Catalonia and also for their “fight for ideas”. “We hope things change today,” he concluded.
On this occasion, a total of 5,703,737 voters in Catalonia are called: in the province of Barcelona 4,243,485 can vote; in Girona, 546,371; in Lleida, 317,224, and in Tarragona, 596,657.
