Madrid (EFE) The answer from the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) is no.
From the OCU, its spokesperson, Iliana Izverniceanu, assures that having contracted and paid for your vacation can be cause for the recovery of money.
In principle, if there is cancellation insurance, the return is easy, according to the OCU, because the person in question could argue that they have been called to a polling station and would request coverage after providing documentation that this has been the case. .
Cause of force majeure
But even if you do not have this insurance, the organization considers that being called to participate in election day would be “a cause of force majeure” and that cancellation insurance would not be necessary for the return of the money in advance.
It would be an “unavoidable, unforeseeable and unavoidable cause that was not known before contracting that trip”, according to the spokeswoman, and it would be important enough to be able to fully recover the money for the trip that we cannot make.
But this is not the only question that citizens ask themselves before this call that is held in July, a month that chooses 30% of Spaniards to go on vacation, and on a Sunday that coincides with the bridge for the day of Santiago Apóstol , which is celebrated on July 25 and which is a holiday in some communities, such as Galicia, Castilla y León, Navarra or the Basque Country.
Many are those who are trying to know for sure if having purchased tickets or reserved accommodation can serve as an excuse for not being at a polling station, if called.
When are the members of the polling stations elected?
The presidents and members of the tables, as well as two substitutes for each one of them, are chosen by lottery between the twenty-fifth and twenty-ninth days after the call, according to the law. That is, between June 24 and 28.
Those appointed have seven days to claim before the Zone Electoral Board the justified and documented cause that prevents them from accepting the position. The Board will resolve in five days and notify the interested party of its decision.
The Central Electoral Board issued in 2011 an instruction with a list of cases in which the excuse of the designated person would be justified. A list that, however, is open.