The Minister of Transport, raquel sanchezhas replied to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez-Feijóo, regarding the controversy over voting by mail. The ‘popular’ leader questioned whether all the ballots could arrive on time and from the Government they have responded that “it may be that in the PP they are used to this irregular circulation of envelopes, but in the Government of course not and a lot except the public workers of the Post Office”. This was stated by the head of Transport this Thursday at the annual assembly of the employers’ association SMEsheld in Barcelona.
The PP candidate for the general elections urged the Post Office workers to “distribute the entire vote regardless of their bosses” and to work “morning, afternoon and night” for this. The president of the Executive and his main opponent in the elections, Pedro Sánchez, accused Feijóo of wanting to “muddy” the electoral campaign with his statements.
Along these lines, the Minister of Transport has expressed her “stupor” before the comments of the conservative leader and has criticized that he puts “in doubt the professionalism of the workers and the voting system” in Spain. A system, as he has reiterated, “that works” and that places Spain as a “leader of transparency and democratic quality” in international indices.
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Correos, given the coincidence of the elections with the summer season, has received an unprecedented flood of requests to vote remotely. A total of 2.3 million voters They had requested, as of Wednesday, to be able to vote by mail, which almost doubles the demands made for the 2019 elections. In order to face them, as well as to manage the vacations already granted to the employees of the public company, Correos has confirmed that it has signed 20,240 temporary contracts reinforcement.
The address of the postal company has also announced this Thursday that it will extend hours at its offices in Madrid and Barcelona. Specifically, a total of 106 branches between both cities will open on Saturday, July 15, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.