Madrid, (EFE).- The participation at 2:00 p.m. in the elections this Sunday is 40.48%, 2.56 points more than that registered at that time in the last general ones, held on November 10, 2019, when it stood at 37.92%.
This was reported at a press conference at the National Electoral Data Dissemination Center by the Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallès, and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Isabel Goicoechea.
Voting by mail, which has reached historic figures in these elections, does not take this data into account: 2.47 million voters have sent their ballots before this Sunday.
Vallès recalled that the ballots of those voters who voted early will be placed in the polls once the polling stations are closed, at which time the president of each month will open the envelopes received.
Neither Vallès nor Goicoechea have wanted to comment on the increase in participation in this 23J, although the Secretary of State for Communication has assured that “it is good news in any democratic process.”
Turnout in the general elections of November 2019 was the lowest in the history of democracy (66.23%). The elections that had been held in April were repeated, when 71.76% of the electoral census had turned out to vote.
The record was reached in 1982, when the turnout at the polls was 79.97%