Madrid (EFE)
Voting will begin at 9:00 a.m., when the polling stations will open their doors to the public, and will conclude at 8:00 p.m. The process in the Canary Islands is carried out one hour later than peninsular time.
The call for general elections in the middle of summer has marked the process of conforming the 60,314 tables, made up of almost 181,000 members, to which are added more than 361,000 substitutes.
The Central Electoral Board allowed excuses if a vacation trip had been hired prior to the call and numerous people elected as presidents or members have presented allegations, many successfully.
In Madrid alone, for example, 12,720 excuses have been registered, almost 3,000 more than in the May elections, and 10,200 have been estimated, as reported by the capital’s City Council.
Other consistories, such as Soria or Pamplona, were forced to repeat the draws to fill the vacancies.
On Friday, the Central Electoral Board issued a resolution to remind that if, even so, there are gaps, the zone boards may order that the first voters to arrive or substitutes from nearby polling stations fill them.
The Government stressed this Saturday its full confidence in the robustness of the electoral system and ruled out incidents.
In these elections, the members of the tables will receive a diet of 70 euros.