- The mayor of Ordizia, Adur Ezenarro, has pointed out that about a thousand people were waiting at home on July 8 to receive the results of the PCR test in isolation, and that in the coming days this number will increase, as they will continue to perform PCR tests throughout the week. How are these citizens going to vote? At 9:00 a.m. the Electoral Board met to analyse the situation in Ordizia, and they decided that those affected would not be able to vote and that those in preventive quarantine would be able to vote if they had prepared the vote from home.
Ordizia has a population of 9,970 inhabitants, according to the report published by Osakidetza with figures of COVID-19 infections and the mayor notes that 10% of the population is isolated, cannot leave home, waits to know the results of the PCR or because they are direct contacts of those who have tested positive. The mayor has wondered what is going to happen to his right to vote and the answer has been known after the meeting of the Electoral Board: those infected will not be able to vote and those who are in preventive quarantine will be able to do so if they take the vote prepared from home.
Concerning security, we do not currently maintain the guarantees.
On 8 July, Goierriko Hitza collected in this video the statements of Adur EZENARRO. As he indicated, security measures for the holding of the elections are being organized from the outset, but these instructions are those given by the Government before the outbreak of Ordizia, and EZENARRO has indicated: "If these security measures were applied to that situation, we find it difficult to understand that these measures can be valid at the present juncture, and that we cannot ignore them. That is why, from the point of view of security, I believe that we do not currently have guarantees. On the other hand, democratic rights do not know how they will materialise." Following the meeting of the Electoral Board on Thursday, the answers to the questions and concerns that the people of Ordizia had with regard to the elections have come.
Also those who have had to be on the table in lockdown or worried
Fear of spreading it to others and becoming infected at home. Both live the neighbours whom it has been their duty to be at the polling stations in Ordizia this Sunday. The journalist Jon Ordoñez Garmendia has gathered in Berria the experiences of young people living in Euskal Herria. The people who have to be at the table have not received any calls to do the PCR test, and knowing that they will be in front of hundreds of citizens, have seen the need for them to stay quieter: "I haven't walked down Etxezarreta Street and I haven't seen anyone who's been around there. But I doubt that I have to do so knowing the number of people waiting for me on Sunday," said Izaro Beitia in statements to journalists in Berria.
It is to be hoped that those who sit at the table will not be able to perform that function that day, as they will be infected or waiting for results. Mayor Ezenarro has announced that they will encounter problems in recovering: (Among those who had to form the table) "There are people who are isolated, there are people who have tested positive and there are people who have told us that in this situation they have a tremendous fear and that they will certainly not appear."
Schools are also concerned
In statements to Goierriko Hitza, the mayor explained that "the educational centers have also shown us their concern because they are going to be the electoral college and because activities are going to take place in those centers on Monday morning." The mayor has announced that Plan B is being organised, that the polling stations will be located outside, "but we are finding it very difficult to ensure that the elections are held in safety conditions".