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Spain returns to the polls. The fourth time in four years you have to vote with the resulting electoral spending. A fact that has provoked dozens of criticism by citizens tired of wasteful elections, again. With the new elections will be thus 540 million spent from 2015 to 2019 in the four general elections held.

The repetition of the general elections on November 10 will involve returning to rallies, re- wallpapering the streets with the faces of the candidates , returning to have the mailbox full of letters with the ballots of each party , re-following the debates in television and, ultimately, spend a lot of money again. In fact, the repetition of the elections will force the Government to approve an extension of credit to be able to pay the expenses of electoral machinery, with an initial budget that approaches 140 million euros .

However, in 2018 a modification of the Electoral Law was carried out that allows citizens to request not to receive electoral propaganda in their mailboxes. For this, the citizen who wants to dispense with electoral propaganda will only have to enter the INE website and fill out the exclusion request form in the copies of the electoral roll that are given to the representatives of the candidacies to make the postal propaganda shipments electoral.

According to the INE, the exclusions for sending electoral propaganda will only be processed until the thirteenth day after the call for elections . In fact, it is expected that the call for elections will be made public on September 24 with what the citizen who wants to be excluded from electoral propaganda has until October 7 to request it .

And who can request the exclusion? For any person registered in the electoral roll that has an electronic certificate or through the Cl @ ve system, which is used for other procedures such as the Income statement or requesting the work life report.

The steps to follow are those:

  • First of all go to the INE page where the exclusion of electoral propaganda is managed.
  • Select access through the digital certificate or the Cl @ ve system .
  • Identify and verify the personal data that appears on the screen where you can read Current situation in copies of political parties: Included.
  • Press the submit request button and the exclusion will be automatic.
  • In this way, during the two remaining months to go back to the polls, the mailboxes will not be filled with letters from the political parties with their propaganda and their ballots. Of course, you can not avoid other types of propaganda such as street or radio and television .

    A way to alleviate the tiredness of many citizens by having to vote again. Even the first viral campaigns against electoral spending and propaganda have already emerged with messages like "I don't want a single envelope with propaganda and ballot papers!" or "I will vote and I don't want electoral propaganda . "

    Some requests that add to the proposal launched on the Change.org platform - "Deputies, if you do not pay, do not charge !: waive your compensation" - so that the deputies renounce the so-called transitional compensation that everyone has the right to request and that corresponds to the salary that they would have received from the dissolution of the Congress until the day of reflection of the elections.

    "You and I have to agree daily on many things with very diverse people by pure coexistence, but the politicians who represent you cannot even sit down and talk so that a country, yours, starts. Europe is going into recession and your politicians have decided that it is still early to get up early in the morning, "says the petition that has collected almost 300,000 signatures in 24 hours .

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