Madrid (EFE) that a person uttered when he began his statements to the media.
Sánchez voted at the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Buen Consejo in Madrid together with his wife at 9:30 a.m., and when he was about to attend to the journalists, a man shouted: “Txapote vote for you.”
“Yeah, yeah, very good. This is a pity, that on election day, in such an important democracy, we unfortunately have the intolerant, the disqualification, the noise, the tension and the insults”, Sánchez pointed out.
He then highlighted the importance of the elections on May 28 in which the municipal governments and those of twelve autonomous communities are elected, in addition to those of Ceuta and Melilla.
“That is why I would like to convey that it is very important that we go to vote today in each and every one of our electoral colleges and that we also do it – he said – in a positive way, forgetting this intolerance, this noise, this disqualification, this tension that tries to install a minority”.
Sánchez has been convinced that the majority of citizens will vote positively, with respect and with reflection and thinking that what is important is public health and education or housing policies for our young people.
“So the more people we get to vote today, the better for our institutions and the stronger our democracy will be. And I trust, because I also know the Spanish people, that it will be like that, ”he stressed.
The cry uttered against the Chief Executive had been repeated by a person upon his arrival at the school and was answered with other voices of “President! President!” and applause for Sánchez.
Ximo Puig calls to repeat a participation record in the Valencian Community
The president of the Generalitat Valenciana and socialist candidate for re-election, Ximo Puig, has called for the Valencian Community to once again have a “record participation” in these elections because democracy “is the decision-making process at decisive moments” .
Puig has made these statements to journalists at the Tourist Office of Morella (Castellón), where he has voted accompanied by one of his grandchildren, and has asserted that this May 28 is a “very important day for Valencians because today we decide the future of our community and of the town halls”.
Ximo Puig, who is registered in Morella (Castellón), does not vote for himself, since he heads the regional candidacy of the PSPV-PSOE for the Valencia constituency.
Almeida: “If water falls in Madrid, what really has to fall are votes at the polls”
The mayor of Madrid and PP candidate, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has exercised his right to vote joking with the fact that he has had more success depositing the PP ballots in the ballot box this 28M than in front of a goal, and has invited Madrilenians to go out and vote on a pleasant day for this: “If water falls in Madrid, what really has to fall are votes at the polls.”
The mayor and candidate to revalidate the position, who later accompanied the party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is exercising his right to vote in the capital for the first time, thanked the work of all those involved in making the elections possible take place this Sunday and he has considered that it is a “wonderful” day to vote.
Garzón asks to vote against those who want to “delegitimize” the electoral process
The Minister of Consumption and leader of the IU, Alberto Garzón, has appealed to the citizens this Sunday to go to the municipal and regional polls in order to counteract those “currents that are trying to delegitimize the electoral process.”
Garzón has launched this message after voting at a polling station in the Madrid town of Rivas Vaciamadrid.
Ione Belarra encourages citizens to vote: “The stakes are high”
The Secretary General of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, has indicated that “today people finally have the same power as the powerful who rule without running for election throughout the year”, for this reason has encouraged citizens to go vote: “The stakes are high.”
Urkullu calls to vote to help strengthen democracy
The lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has asked all citizens to go to vote and thus contribute “to reinforce representative and institutional democracy”.
“I encourage citizens to vote because by voting representative and institutional democracy is reinforced,” said Urkullu, who came to cast his vote at 9:30 a.m. in the schools of Zabalarraga in the Biscayne municipality of Durango, together with his wife, Lucía Arieta-Araunabeña.