• 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.

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