Wednesday, November 13

General Election 23-J, Breaking News Live | Correos responds to Feijóo’s insinuations: “Voting by mail is safe and guarantees” | General Election 23J | Spain

What happened in the last few hours

11 days before the general election on July 23, this is the highlight of the day at 8pm this Wednesday:

Correos responds to the PP’s insinuations: “The postal voting process in Spain is safe and guarantees”. After PP leader and government presidential candidate for the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, insinuated this morning that the government wants to interfere in the electoral process by making mail-in voting difficult, Correos published a second note in La Stampa on Wednesday in which guarantees that “the process of postal voting in Spain is safe and guarantees”, verified by the Central Electoral Council. “Correos is a public company with a 307-year history,” the statement said. “During all its years of activity and in all phases, 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 earlier he had denied the PP, stating that the salary of the company’s professionals has already been agreed “from May 30”, which “guarantees the vote by mail”. The public company also reiterated that it had formalized “19,400 workforce reinforcement contracts due to the political 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 mandate. If they are not 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 gets to the government he will pay “overtime for all the postmen in Spain” in his first Council of Ministers. Alberto Núñez Feijóo called for a large turnout and reminded that this Thursday is the last day to vote by mail. “I ask the postmen of Spain to work at their maximum, morning, afternoon and night, and even if they do not have sufficient reinforcements and know that they keep something sacred for the Spaniards, which is their vow. I ask that, regardless of your bosses, distribute all the votes before the deadline expires, so that we Spaniards can vote”.

Sánchez, in the words of Feijóo de los carteros: “It’s an example of the type of opposition we’ve had in recent years, Spain deserves better.” The prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was very critical of the statements of the candidate of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who asked the postmen to distribute all the votes before the end of his mandate “regardless of who is responsible”. “It’s an example of the kind of opposition we’ve had over the years,” Sánchez replied during the press conference after the NATO summit in Lithuania. “Spain deserves a better opposition,” concluded the PSOE presidential candidate, who confessed that he had not listened to Feijóo’s statements at a rally in Murcia. “We immediately had an opposition based on three points: lying, as we saw in the debate; manipulation, these statements that are made to undermine people’s trust in institutions and democracy and ultimately evil.

The JEC opens a file on Sánchez for criticizing PP and Vox from the state structures in Brussels. The Central Electoral Council (JEC) opened on Wednesday a sanctioning file against the leader of the PSOE and prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, for violating the principle of “institutional neutrality” during an electoral process by carrying out “evaluations with electoral connotations” during the press release released at the headquarters of the Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU, after the last European Council held on 30 June in Brussels.

Sumar opens a WhatsApp line through which Díaz “answers” via audio messages. This Wednesday, Sumar presented a WhatsApp channel through which he promises to respond “with audio to citizens’ doubts, suggestions and messages”. “I will answer each of them,” said the party’s candidate for prime minister, Vice President Yolanda Díaz, in a video posted on her social networks.

Vox hangs up 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 streets”. In the image posted on a facade in Madrid, a man with a beard and a covered face covers the mouth of a woman, consequently, clarifies the ultra party in a statement on its website, of “illegal immigration and the effect of the Yes law Well yes”.