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The Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallès, and the Undersecretary for the Interior, Isabel Goicoechea, have guaranteed this Saturday that the entire device is ready for the general elections to take place “with total normality” and have praised the electoral system, “robust, secure and well designed”.

At a press conference at the National Data Dissemination Center, at the IFEMA fairgrounds, on the eve of some atypical elections in summer, they had words of gratitude for Correos, “which has carried out a great work of public responsibility in view of the high number of votes” cast by this means.

Asked about the possibility of incidents in the constitution of the tables or throughout the day, which is expected to be hot, Vallès has emphasized that the operation is organized so that “everything works, as always, correctly” and has highlighted all the resources activated by the different administrations.

Both the Government delegations and the sub-delegations, he added, are at the “total disposal of the municipalities to provide the resources that are necessary for the day to flow as normally as possible”.

After reviewing the main data of these elections, in which almost 37.5 million citizens will be able to vote in 22,562 polling stations, they have shown their gratitude to the almost 181,000 citizens summoned as presidents or board members and to the 362,000 called as substitutes.

And they have also thanked the work that will be carried out by all the participants in the event, from the party controllers to the more than 90,000 State security forces and bodies that will make up the security device.

“Everything is ready for the elections to take place as normal,” Goicoechea insisted.

The figures of 23-J

Tomorrow’s are the sixteenth elections to Cortes Generales and 37,469,142 Spaniards are called to vote, of which 2.3 million reside abroad.

More than 1.6 million are premiering in a general election, since they still did not have the right to vote in the last elections, on November 10, 2019.

Many of them have already sent their ballot. According to the figures made public this Saturday by the Post Office, more than 2.47 million voters have deposited their vote in an office; It is 94.2% of the applications admitted, the highest ratio reached in a general election since there are approved statistical records (2008).

For those who are going to vote this Sunday, 210,000 ballot boxes and 59,000 booths have been installed and 85 million envelopes have been distributed in schools.

Throughout the country, there are 549 proclaimed candidacies for Congress and 544 for the Senate.

Before the press conference, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, visited the data center installed in one of the pavilions of the IFEMA-Madrid fairgrounds, accompanied by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, Vallès and Goicoechea.

In the security device prepared for these elections, 90,282 members of the National Police, the Civil Guard, the regional forces and the local police will participate, and a security device has also been designed against possible cyberattacks.

The polling stations will open at 9:00 a.m. and a first press conference is scheduled for Vallès and Goicoechea at 10:30 a.m. to report on the constitution of the polling stations and the start of voting.

They will appear again at 2:30 p.m. to disseminate the participation registered at 2:00 p.m.; and at 6:30 p.m., when they will report the percentage of people who have voted until 6:00 p.m.

The schools will close at 8:00 p.m. on the Peninsula, at 9:00 p.m. in the Canary Islands, and at around 10:30 p.m., depending on the progress of the scrutiny, the Minister of the Interior and the Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, will offer a press conference to provide the provisional data.

All these data can be consulted live on the website and through the application 23-J General Elections 2023.