Madrid (EFE) scare than another: arrests and the heart attack of a member of a Dos Hermanas table.
Most of the polling stations have opened on time and the day is passing without incident, but as in every electoral appointment there has always been some last-minute mismatch or unforeseen event, such as the ballot papers printed on both sides of Sueca, Valencia, and also curiosities like the image of three nuns.
Three nuns from the same congregation at the polling station
In the Cantabrian municipality of Solares, the polling station has been made up of three nuns from the congregation of the Daughters of Santa María del Corazón de Jesús, who have carried out their task with their habits, the same with which their convent companions have voted.
Not far from there, in Santa Cruz de Bezana, the table took 45 minutes to set up because its second member was the PSOE candidate for the Presidency of Cantabria, Pablo Zuloaga, who cannot be part of that body due to his status as a candidate . Finally, a substitute has been “refished” who, with permission to leave, had to return.
Record when voting in Villarroya
But if there is an anecdote that slips into almost every appointment with the polls, it is that of the “electoral sprint.” As if they had won the lottery, the Riojan municipality of Villarroya has been at the forefront of information by completing the vote in 29 seconds and 52 hundredths, exceeding its 2019 record by almost three seconds.
The timer has stopped when the four neighbors who are not part of the polling station have deposited their ballots, since the three who are in front of it must vote when the ballot box closes.
In Valladolid, its mayor, the socialist Óscar Puente, has had to wait several minutes in the street until they brought him the ID that he had left behind at home, while the inhabitants of Rapariegos (Segovia) will close their school for an hour and half later because one more candidate appeared on the PSOE ballots.
The electoral board has ruled that the vote be carried out with the error, but informing all voters that only the first four names were valid.
In La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz), a suspicious package has delayed the opening of the polls, but the police have removed it and normality has been restored.
Police save the life of a vocal
National Police agents have saved the life, with cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers, of a member who was at a table in the Seville town of Dos Hermanas and who had suffered a heart attack.
As reported by the Police, he left his post because he was indisposed. Moments later, when he was already on Óscar Arias street, this man collapsed and went into cardiorespiratory arrest.
The man was transferred to the Virgen de Valme University Hospital by the health services of 061 with the pulse restored.
Arrests in Santander and Getafe
The National Police have arrested a 33-year-old man at a polling station in Santander who has become aggressive after being chosen to replace the president of the polling station, who had suffered an illness and had to be absent.
The substitutes had already left, so the members of the Zone Electoral Board had to go to resolve the incident.
It was determined that a 33-year-old man would remain, who has become aggressive with the officials, which has forced the police to intervene, who have arrested him.
In Getafe, Madrid, a 46-year-old man has also been detained at the Colegio Sagrado Corazón. According to police sources, he was designated as a substitute for a person at the table who had appeared and, when someone other than the one he should replace failed, he understood that it was not his place to take his place.
football hangover
The promotion of Granada CF to the First Division, confirmed last night after the team’s 2-0 victory against Leganés at the Nuevo Los Cármenes stadium, is present this Sunday in many schools, to which some voters come dressed in the rojiblancos colors .
This has been the case of those who have accompanied the candidates for mayor of both the PSOE and the PP. In the first case, the mayor and candidate for reelection, Francisco Cuenca, has come with his son, a young man wearing a Granada shirt and who has exercised his right to vote for the first time after turning 18 a few days ago.
That substitution does not always have to be something negative for a professional footballer has been demonstrated in San Sebastián during the constitution of the table installed in the ikastola Arantzazuko Ama de Martutene, for which Real Sociedad striker Carlos Fernández had been appointed first alternate of the second vowel.
Fernández is included in Imanol Alguacil’s squad for this afternoon’s match against Atlético de Madrid, but he was unable to travel to the capital yesterday with his teammates for this reason.