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The uniqueness of the first Catalan regional elections that are held in the midst of an epidemic, on a rainy day, during the (suspended) Carnival festivities and on Valentine's Day has led to endless anecdotes, paradoxes and curiosities.
Unfortunately, there have also been incidents, although they have been the exception.
BAGS AND COSTUMES
In many localities where the celebration of Carnival, which this year has been cut off by the pandemic, is most deeply rooted, some voters have come in disguise to cast their vote to take advantage of the fact that the "democracy party" is celebrated.
A voter who has cast his vote in the Ramon y Cajal school in Terrassa (Barcelona) has done it
dressed as Batman
, before the smile of the members of the table -which was more intuited than it was seen, by the mask-.
In Solsona (Lleida), many voters have gone to vote dressed in the traditional robes of their traditional and massive carnival, as the local groups have recorded on the networks.
But the one who has attracted the most attention has been a certain 'Lugi' -this has been identified-, who has presented himself to be
president at a table at the Tarragona school in the Tarragona capital dressed as a clown
, but not to celebrate the carnival but because thinks that "this is a circus, is what I thought when the letter arrived to me", has said to RAC-1.
UMBRELLA, BUT NOT UMBRELLA
Due to the rain, many voters have gone to the polls with umbrellas, but in most of the schools there were no umbrella stands and also entered through one place and exited through another to avoid voter crossings.
The question at the end of the day will be: how many umbrellas have been forgotten today?
THE ID, BETTER WITH CLIPS
The holding of elections in the context of a health pandemic has
multiplied the measures to prevent infections
.
Not only masks;
Gloves, glasses, protective screens and PPE have been widely present in most schools and those responsible for the tables have managed to avoid any physical contact.
At the Virrey Amat Can Rica Municipal Sports Center they have used clothespins to collect and return the voters' ID.
MONTILLA, PRESIDENT .... OF TABLE
The voters of the Les Escoles de Sant Just Desvern electoral college (Barcelona) have been surprised when they have seen that the former president of the Generalitat José Montilla presided over one of the tables where they could cast their votes.
The former Catalan socialist president and former Minister of Industry, who is 65 years old, had received notification that he was a substitute, but
since the chairman of the table has not been presented, he has had to assume his functions
.
Antena 3 journalist Ainara Guezuraga has published the images on her Twitter account
TO VOTE WITH WALKER
A 97-year-old woman came first thing this morning to vote in the modernist market of Sant Antoni in Barcelona, which for the first time has functioned as an electoral college, and has done so with the help of a walker, expressing that she really wanted to vote and that he hopes to be able to do so within four years.
"I am the oldest in the neighborhood,"
Joaquim, a 99-year-old grandfather, who has come with the vote prepared, accompanied by his son and grandson and supported by two crutches, told Efe Santa Dorotea school, in the neighborhood from Sarrià de Barcelona.
MADRIDISTAS IN THE CAMP NOU AND ATHEISTS IN THE CHURCH
One of the paradoxes that this electoral Sunday has brought is that some have not felt well having to go to the Camp Nou to vote.
This is what has happened to a few Real Madrid football fans, who have had to go to cast their vote at
the polling station located in the 1899 Auditorium inside the Camp Nou
.
"I am excited to come to vote here, but I just spoke with someone who is from Real Madrid who did not do so much," one of the voters from the Les Corts neighborhood of Barcelona who have gone to the Barça auditorium commented to Efe .
A member of a polling station, with a Barcelona shirt at the Camp Nou |
Albert Gea / Reuters
Something similar has happened to some atheists and agnostics, who have not entered a church for years, and this Sunday they had to do so because in the central nave of the church of Santa Bárbara de Súria (Barcelona) they have placed voting tables in the two sides, and they have enabled two differentiated corridors, together with the religious images, to enter and exit.
COLLEGE OF DOCTORS AND ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO YOUR DESPITE
The Barcelona College of Physicians has become an electoral college and has hosted four ballot boxes, another paradox of the day taking into account that
the president of this professional college, Jaume Padrós, was in favor of postponing the elections
and has claimed all these days that infected people do not go in person to vote, a recommendation that has not been taken into account.
FEMALE PLANS HER BREASTS BEFORE VOX
One of the images of the day is that of
five young girls, Femen activists, who have shown their naked and vindictive torso
at the doors of La Salle Bonanova school in Barcelona where the Vox candidate, Ignacio Garriga, has voted.
The activists had written in black ink on their chests "fascists outside the polls."
An action that the leader of the party, Santiago Abascal has framed in the aggressions that members of the formation have suffered during campaign events.
Five Femen activists protest at the electoral college where Ignacio Garriga (Vox) voted |
Lluis Gené / AFP
Vox denounces the aggression to one of its attorneys
Vox has denounced the attack on a representative of the party at an electoral college in Canovelles (Barcelona) this Sunday morning.
In
a tweet collected by Europa Press
, the party explained that the woman is well and that she will continue in school for the rest of the day, but has warned that they will demand responsibilities from the Ministry of the Interior.
The Mossos d'Esquadra have explained to Europa Press that there has been a fight between the two people and that, upon identifying them, they have realized that the other person had a valid arrest warrant, and that is why they have detained her.
ARRESTED FOR NOT WEARING A MASK AND ATTACKING THE MOSSOS
Two young people have been arrested in the Tarragona municipality of Castellvell del Camp for refusing to put on a mask to vote at their polling station, a request made by the Mossos and for which they have confronted two agents, who have been slightly injured .
Catalan Police sources have informed EFE that the event took place when the two men, 24 years old and residents of Castellvell, were heading down Pompeu Fabra Street in the town to vote at the electoral college set up in the Center of Municipality day.
The officers of the patrol assigned to that school have repeatedly required them to put on the mask before accessing their table, to which they have refused.
Subsequently, the youths
have physically attacked the officers, who have suffered scratches and scratches
.
Both have been arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime of serious disobedience and another of attack on law enforcement officials.
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