Sumar will propose to the Central Electoral Board (JEC) that it study extending voting hours for the 23J elections until 10 p.m., to prevent the high temperatures that can occur on that day from discouraging citizens when casting their vote .
Along with this, it demands that water and good air conditioning be guaranteed in the polling stations, as well as enough shade outside them, to prevent anyone from suffering heat strokes when going to the polling stations.
This was reported by Sumar's campaign spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, at a press conference in Madrid to detail a series of measures to guarantee the maximum democratic guarantees under "extremely high temperatures" that are going to occur in some towns in Spain, where It can reach 40 degrees.
In this sense, he has stressed that the Electoral Board clearly marks the electoral hours, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., but it also has a certain "discretionality" to be able to adapt the hours, in the face of the "climate emergency", and to be able to deposit the vote later . He has even recalled that the autonomy statute of Andalusia alludes to the fact that regional elections cannot be held in months like July or August.
"We want you to value it seriously", he remarked to specify that the members of the table will also have to be compensated for having to spend more time in the position.
Therefore, it will send a letter to request that shadows be guaranteed outside all polling stations, given that people cannot be allowed to form queues in full sun, ensure adequate health conditions with good air conditioning and water in all polling stations, together with the reinforcement of health services during 23J.
In another order of things, Urtasun has once again defended that there are no differences between Sumar and the commons regarding a possible consultation in Catalonia. The spokesman for Sumar has thus referred to the words of the head of the list for Barcelona of Sumar-En Comú Podem, Aina Vidal, who has assured this morning that they have not abandoned "anything" the idea of holding a referendum in Catalonia as a result of of the negotiation between the Government and the Generalitat.
In this regard, Urtasun has remarked that they have been "clear" since Sumar and that they say the same as the communes in this matter: that the path for Catalonia is "agreement and dialogue", with the endorsement of the citizens to the pact that was scope between the Government and the Generalitat.
Sumar's spokesman has emphasized that the dialogue table is positive because it has left the framework of the "failed and erroneous unilateralism" of the independence movement, as well as the intervention of the Catalan self-government that the PP decreed through article 155 of the Constitution.
And on this issue he has insisted that there is no divergence with the comuns, and that the consultation on the new lace agreement in Catalonia will be in the electoral program of Sumar and comuns al 23J in this constituency, in more detail to the mention that it will be done in the state program
