This week, in a conversation with acquaintances, one of them released, thus without disheveled despite being bald, a new conspiracy theory: the penultimate day of LaLiga will be played on election day at seven in the afternoon because Vox low participation is interested and Javier Tebas is from Vox. An absurd level. It would be more credible to ensure that many of those who are on this party's lists would prefer never to vote, but that the evil Thebes conditions some relegations or some European rankings to benefit an increase in the votes of the extreme right sounds like a new brother-in-law.
Yes, it is true that LaLiga has no one to cough. Neither the publishers, nor those of the booksellers' union, nor the florists' union, nor the Ministry of Culture realized that the football calendar linked the Sant Jordi Day with a Barça-Atlético de Madrid match at the Camp Nou. Not even now the Electoral Board (JEC), so aware of alleged absurd irregularities in the form of banners, posters or debates, observed that the second most important day of the year could be played in unified hours in the middle of electoral day (7 in the afternoon).
The blame is not only on LaLiga, it is on those who are incapable of giving a voting Sunday the solemnity that a day like this deserves. Wouldn't it be more rational to spend the day on Saturday? Well, it can't be because the season finale has to be in a sprint (like bad movies). The last seven days, the good ones, the decisive ones, the expected ones, are played in just twenty-eight days.
Of course, you can vote throughout Sunday and it will probably affect voter turnout "very little", but that "very little" is what should be of "general interest", a term invented (but inverted) by the former PP minister Francisco Álvarez-Cascos when he forced to televise matches due to the need for football for everyone.
On Sunday it would play the other way around: it is democracy that should be of general interest against football. No mass phenomenon should interfere with the free will of the citizen to exercise the right to vote.
