Catalonia Elections: All the news of the Catalan elections 2021
14-F. The Government assumes that all tables may be constituted
Markets or hotels such as voting points, individual protection equipment for polling station members, unprecedented police deployment ... Catalonia chooses this Sunday the composition of a new
regional Parliament
in the
most special
elections
in its history.
And that the bar seemed to be at the highest, after those of 2015, presented as a plebiscite of
self
-
determination
by the then president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, and those of 2017, called by Mariano Rajoy after the application of
article 155
of the
Constitution
and only two months after the convulsive October of that year.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused that, to the uncertainty of results for which no one dares to put their hand in the fire, a series of factors have been added that have led to what the topic called "the festival of the democracy "into unknown terrain in the social sphere.
The unpredictable
Catalan policy
has also added additional obstacles to setting the date, about which news was already expected since the end of January 2020, when Quim Torra declared the legislature exhausted.
The Covid, the electoral calculation and the disqualification of the
president
by a final court ruling led to the automatic summons on February 14.
The postponement that some parties especially sought, for interests beyond the purely health ones, surrounded the start of the campaign with more doubts until the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia ratified the suspension of the
Government
decree
that had postponed the appointment with the polls to May.
Time zones
The more than 5.6 million Catalans called to vote (255,163 of whom do so abroad) will find a series of health protocols and physical distancing measures to avoid
contagion
.
The first one, the recommendation to vote in
three time slots
: from 9 to 12 hours, risk groups;
from 19 to 20 hours, people in quarantine (positive, close contacts and suspects);
and the rest of the population, between 12 and 19 hours.
The
Health Department
estimates that there will be about 96,000 people in quarantine tomorrow, a figure lower than the more than 130,000 that the council predicted a few weeks ago, when the pandemic indicators were worse than in recent days.
The call to
vote by mail
will help reduce the influx of voters, since 265,647 votes have been registered using this method, almost three times the number in the last appointment.
In addition to schools and civic centers, this time the device has spaces such as markets, museums, sports centers, the
FC Barcelona
auditorium
and even restaurants and hotels temporarily closed due to lack of activity.
Each voting point will have a person in
charge of health security
to ensure compliance with the measures.
The 9,139
polling stations
, which the Government assures that in 99.9% of cases have guaranteed the number of members necessary for their constitution, will have masks, face shields and gloves for their components, which will not touch the identity documents of the voters (they will be placed in trays).
In the last time slot, they will use personal protective equipment (
PPE
).
Voting points
One-way circuits will be established within the centers to avoid the crossing of people with different entrances and exits.
Except in cases where assistance is needed, only the person who has to vote can access.
Likewise, constant ventilation and a
distance
of two meters between election months and 1.5 meters between all people
must be guaranteed
.
For this purpose, the provision of outdoor tables within the enclosure itself will be allowed.
The Generalitat, on the other hand, has made available to voters an application for mobiles and tablets (
Eleccions 14F
) that will allow them to know the occupation of the premises with data in real time to avoid crowds.
The unprecedented security measures of February 14 are not only health ones.
This Sunday will also be marked, at least for the moment, as the election day with the largest
police force
in Catalonia, with a total of 14,000 agents between
mossos d'esquadra
and municipal police.
A fixed patrol will be assigned to each local.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
Catalonia
Artur Mas
Mariano Rajoy
Quim Torra
FC Barcelona
Catalan Elections
Coronavirus
Covid 19
Quarantine
Masks
Mossos d'Esquadra
Coronavirus Special
Catalonia elections 2021The fear of covid beats the record of vote by mail in an election in Catalonia with 350% more requests
Coronavirus The health sector demolishes the image of Salvador Illa's manager and reminds him of all the mistakes made
Catalonia Elections 2021The punishment of Catalan hospitals for a decade of sovereign management: "We were ordered to treat patients without individual protection"
See links of interest
Work calendar
RB Leipzig - FC Augsburg
Bologna - Benevento
Celta de Vigo - Elche
Granada CF - Atlético de Madrid, live
Barcelona - Alavés, live