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The Basque Government is going to communicate to 161 citizens with Covid-19 in Euskadi that they will commit a "crime against health" if they decide to exercise their right to vote in the regional elections to be held tomorrow, July 12. The Minister of Security Estefanía Beltrán de Heredia has alluded to the Penal Code, the Health Law and the Citizen Security Law in her confusing explanation about the criminal type with which it is intended to convince these patients so that they do not go in any case to the polls. Another 500 Basques who have been positive contacts but who have a negative diagnosis will have special conditions to vote if they do not finally decide to abstain.

Covid-19 infections have increased in 31 more cases in the Basque Country during the 24 hours prior to election day, but both the Central and Basque Electoral Boards and the Basque Government insist on carrying out the voting. In Ordizia, the most important regrowth, there are already 70 affected and possible new outbreaks are also being studied in localities such as Deba with 3 new infected in a family relationship and a "close contact".

The Basque Government tries to minimize the controversial decision to impede the right to vote of these 161 infected people without a court order and when a situation occurred that was already considered when it was decided to call the elections on July 12 while the contagions continued. "The right to vote has not been limited to anyone," Beltrán de Heredia insisted, appearing with Health Minister Nekane Murga to update the data on the celebration of an election day marked by the pandemic.

The Basque Health Service will not provide the list of positives, nor have the counselors sought to clarify what control system will be established to ensure that none of the positives skip the mandatory confinement to exercise their right to vote. A right to vote that has also been restricted for the 78,825 Basques residing abroad and which forms the Census of Absent Residents (CERA). According to the estimate made by Beltrán de Heredia, only 2,200 of these voters have voted, half of those who did so in 2016. In this way, only 2.8% of these voters will vote in the Basque Autonomous Communities with countries such as Cuba and Venezuela in those who have been unable to exercise this right. In 2016 the CERA vote decided for EH Bildu a parliamentarian in Bizkaia who lost the PNV and who was decisive for nationalists and the PSE-EE to remain within one seat of the absolute majority of 38 parliamentarians in the Basque Country.

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