Postmen, policemen, municipal technicians, computer technicians, janitors, graphic artists… Head of Government, Pedro Sánchez pressed the election progress button last Monday All mechanisms were put in place to organize the elections, in which more than 36 million people were called to vote.
Setting a selection requires: mobilize tens of thousands of public servants and their coinciding with holidays for Spaniards requires more waistlines in terms of public administration. The first sign that a large number of voters will be caught on the beach, on the mountain or in a far country on Sunday, July 23, number of records vote by mail previously requested. What compels the post office to request extraordinary reinforcements.
The public postal company announced the recruitment of 5,500 temporary workers to cover and improve delivery services related to voting and home delivery of ballots, as well as face-to-face assistance in offices. centers such as CCOO and Csif, 10,000 reinforcement contracts.
Correos will hire more than double the supplements It is among the union’s criticism of its stinginess, more than in the last municipal elections, in which it signed 2,500 temporary workers. Multiple new elections with the approval of the holidays forced the postal company to raise the bet. These supplements will be added to the staff portion of 50,000 workers across the country who eventually decide to put the Post Office into operation.
The role of town halls
Although the elections are announced from Moncloa, city councils take over most of the operations voting day. Fees to open polling stations, technicians to explain their duties to presidents and board members during the day, and computer scientists in case of data exchange problems.
Add to that the clean-up team, removing election posters before the vote – and they don’t require voting – and tidying up everything when the ‘democracy party’ is over.
Banners and propaganda against time
Although the progress of the elections is not only for public administration, scroll in calendar. “The day after Sánchez appeared on TV, my phone was already ringing. “We didn’t go out of one and into the other,” says Joan García, owner of the graphic arts company Publiservei. This SME from Sant Boi is dedicated to: print election poster and banners hanging from street lamps with the faces of candidates of various political parties.
“Summer sales will come with elections. Despite some general ones are easier, because you only need to print two types of posters, the provincial candidate’s poster and the Catalonia poster. The hardest thing is to get the material quickly,” he explains. Municipalities, where each city or town needs its own banner, are much more troublesome. “What if I have to change any worker’s vacation? Frankly, we are having such a hard time that I couldn’t watch it. But whoever has a calm flight,” he concludes.