99.99% of the 60,542 tables prepared to receive the votes of the 35.5 million people who can go to the polls in Spain were constituted at 10:48 a.m.
The Government has highlighted the “absolute normality” with which the process of opening polling stations has been carried out throughout Spain, where, an hour and a half after the opening of the polls, 99.99% of the voters were already constituted. the polling stations.
In a press conference at the Data Center installed at IFEMA in Madrid, the Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallèsand the undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Isabel Goicoecheahave stressed that normality has been the characteristic note of the first hour and a half of the municipal elections, and there has been “no incident worth mentioning”.
99.99% of the 60,542 tables prepared to receive the votes of the 35.5 million people who can go to the polls in Spain were constituted at 10:48 a.m. At this time there was only one table left to be set up in the Canary Islands.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior has explained that “no incident worth mentioning” has occurred in the opening of schools and has highlighted the rapid participation of the La Rioja town of Villarroya, located some 63 kilometers from Logroño, where it has been again the first municipality to close its polls after the vote of all the members of its electoral roll in less than a minute.
For his part, Francesc Vallès, asked about the constitution of the tables in Melilla, has assured that it has also developed with “absolute normality”. “This is a good sign, how could it be otherwise”, he stressed.
In these elections, more than 35.5 million people are called to the polls, in which almost 8,100 town councils and twelve autonomous Parliaments will be renewed, among other institutions.
Upcoming press conferences
Vallès and Goicoechea will appear again at 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to provide the participation data during election day and the Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will do the same from 10:30 p.m. to report the results of the municipal elections.
In addition, the Ministry of the Interior is offering updated information on the development of electoral day, the constitution of polling stations and participation through its website https://resultados.locales2023.es/