The National Police have arrested a 33-year-old man for refusing to replace the president of the polling station where he voted, in Santander, who had a panic attack.
Specifically, the man has been arrested for breaching the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime, specifically, article 143 relating to crimes of abandonment or non-compliance at the polling stations.
This was reported by the Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, at the press conference on the start of election day.
Quiñones has detailed that at a table in a polling station in Santander, the president "has had a health problem" -a panic attack, as specified in a previous appearance by the Minister of the Presidency, Paula Fernández-, the substitutes have already Members of the Zone Electoral Board had gone and had to go to resolve the incident.
The delegate explained that the problem arose "by having to make one of the first people who came to vote a member of the table." "The first have not been able to because they are elderly and the Electoral Board has determined that a 33-year-old man stay, who has become aggressive with the officials, which has forced the National Police to intervene," he indicated. she.
This man has been arrested for a crime contemplated in the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime, and the presidency of the table has been occupied by a woman.
On the other hand, the delegate has reported that there has also been an incident in the constitution of a board of a school in Santa Cruz de Bezana, where the first titular member did not appear and the two substitutes had already left. Likewise, members of the Zone Electoral Board have had to go, who have called the substitutes and located one of them by telephone, "but who has been slow to arrive because he had already left the municipality" and was "more than 50 kilometers," he said.
These have been the only incidents that have been registered in the 831 polling stations at the beginning of this day in which local and regional elections are held in Cantabria, with the local elections being the one managed by the General State Administration and which It has a device of more than 9,000 people.
Thus, the 425 polling stations of the 102 municipalities of Cantabria are open, after having set up the 831 polling stations that the Autonomous Community has on this election day.
Quiñones thanked the 2,493 members of the tables, the 424 representatives of the Administration and the support staff, the almost one hundred people who work today in the Government Delegation, as well as the work that will be carried out throughout the day this Sunday, as well as well as the more than 1,300 members of the State Security Forces and Corps, the National Police and the Civil Guard, and the local police forces of Cantabria.
He recalled that a total of 510,834 Cantabrians are called to vote in the local elections on May 28, of which 18,383 are young people who will do so for the first time. In these municipal elections, 1,040 councilors and 102 mayors are elected in Cantabria.
