General elections 23-J, latest live news | Correos responds to Feijóo’s insinuations: “Voting by mail is safe and guarantees” | General elections 23J | Spain

2023-07-12 20:00:01

What has happened in the last hours

11 days before the general elections on July 23, this is the highlight of the day at 8:00 p.m. this Wednesday:

Correos responds to the insinuations of the PP: “The process of voting by mail in Spain is safe and guarantees.” After the leader of the PP and candidate for the presidency of the Government for the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, insinuated this morning that the Government is wanting to interfere in the electoral process making it difficult to vote by mail, Correos published a second note on Wednesday press in which it guarantees that “the process of voting by mail in Spain is safe and guarantees”, audited by the Central Electoral Board. “Correos is a public company with 307 years of history,” the statement said. “During all its years of activity and at all stages, it has demonstrated its commitment to Spanish society by providing those public services that have been entrusted to it effectively and for the benefit of the citizenry.” Hours before, he had refuted the PP, stating that the salary of the company’s professionals has already been agreed “since May 30”, which “guarantees voting by mail”. The public company has also reiterated that it has formalized “19,400 contracts reinforcement for the workforce due to the general elections and the increase in applications received”, as well as the coincidence with the summer holidays.

Feijóo: “I ask the postmen, regardless of their bosses, to distribute all the votes before the end of the term. If they don’t get paid, we will do it in the first Council of Ministers”. The PP candidate, who was in charge of the Post Office, has promised that if he reaches the Government he will pay “overtime to all postmen in Spain” in his first Council of Ministers. Alberto Núñez Feijóo has called for a large turnout and has recalled that this Thursday is the last day to vote by mail. “I ask the postmen of Spain to work to the maximum, morning, afternoon and night, and even if they do not have sufficient reinforcements and that they know that they are guarding something that is sacred to the Spanish, which is their vote. I ask that, regardless your bosses, distribute all the votes before the deadline expires, so that we Spaniards can vote”.

Sánchez, on the words of Feijóo de los carteros: “It is an example of the type of opposition we have had these years, Spain deserves better.” The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has been very critical of the statements of the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has asked the postmen to distribute all the votes before the end of the term “regardless of those responsible”. “It is an example of the type of opposition we have had over the years,” Sánchez responded, during the press conference after the NATO summit in Lithuania. “Spain deserves a better opposition,” concluded the PSOE candidate for the presidency, who has confessed not having heard Feijóo’s statements at a rally in Murcia. “We have suffered an opposition that has been based on three points: lies, as we saw in the debate; manipulation, these statements that are made to undermine people’s confidence in institutions and democracy, and, lastly, in evil.

The JEC opens a file on Sánchez for criticizing the PP and Vox from state facilities in Brussels. The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has opened this Wednesday a sanction file against the leader of the PSOE and President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for violating the principle of “institutional neutrality” during an electoral process by making “assessments with electoral connotations” during the wheel press release given at the headquarters of the Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU, after the last European Council held on June 30 in Brussels.

Sumar opens a WhatsApp line through which Díaz “responds” through audio messages. Sumar has presented this Wednesday a WhatsApp channel through which it promises to respond “with audios to the doubts, suggestions and messages of the citizenry.” “I am going to answer each one of them,” said the party’s candidate for Prime Minister, Vice President Yolanda Díaz, in a video published on her social networks.

Vox hangs a banner against the government, which it accuses of “putting hundreds of monsters on the street.” Another new political canvas has appeared in Madrid. This time, Vox has deployed one that “denounces the insecurity experienced by women in Spain” with the slogan: “Sánchez has put hundreds of these monsters on the street.” In the image hung on a Madrid facade, a man with a beard and his face covered covers a woman’s mouth, as a consequence, the ultra party clarifies in a statement on its website, of “illegal immigration and the effect of the law of Yes is yes”.