This Sunday of general elections, in warmer areas such as the Levant, the center or the southwest, the voting centers have been equipped with fans, portable refrigeration equipment and water tanks, as Palma has done. The Balearic Ministry of Health will also reinforce the SAMU 061 Coordination Center and offer twelve ambulances to accompany people with disabilities to vote in person.
In the Valencian community, Torrent Town Hall (Valencia) has purchased 61 fans for the schools and has commissioned the Works Brigade to distribute water throughout the day to all the members of the tables, in addition to organizing a special Civil Protection and Red Cross device that will act in the event of any emergency related to The high temperatures.
while the of Madrid will distribute the 2,700 fans, water dispensers and extension cords that the Government Delegation has acquired; Another Madrid municipality, San Sebastián de los Reyes, will air-condition the centers and provide soft drinks, breakfast and lunch to the members of the polling stations, local and national police, and other administration agents who must be present. Barcelona already has its schools ready, in which, in addition to fans, some 18,000 bottles of water (about 9,000 liters) among the people who are at the polling stations.
In Castilla y León, the City Council of Tordesillas (Valladolid) has invested 3,000 euros in air-condition the schools and supply them with water for today’s day; In Murcia, the one from Lorca has collected bottles of water and fans to guarantee the best possible conditions in the 46 polling stations in the municipality. And in Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo has opted for air conditioning units, up to 67, in polling stations that do not have air conditioning systems; Albacete has installed 150 fans in the 30 schools that do not have the means to cope with the high temperatures and will distribute 3,000 bottles of water, while Cuenca has distributed 60 devices, one for each table.
Given the absence of air conditioning in the pavilions where the polling stations have been located, Huesca has installed a light socket to plug in the fans at each of the 68 tables; In Zaragoza, the Government Delegation will guarantee the members of the tables a liter and a half of cold water in the morning and the same amount in the afternoon, some 8,000 liters in total.
In Andalusia, the Córdoba City Council put out to tender the installation of more than 70 refrigeration equipment in voting centers that do not have adequate air conditioning and the parties also plan to provide them for their auditors and proxies.
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